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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.

Jack Kornfield

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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Day Forever Moments Night Open
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Attention Body Healing Human Remember
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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Moment Moments
We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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Heart Pain Warrior
Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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Belief Limit Stuck
The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Heart Know Mind
We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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Awake Courage Doubt Face Need Ourselves Perseverance Right Sorrow
The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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Betrayal Hate Person Suffering Yourself
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Compassionate Hard Kind Life
Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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Basic Beautiful Born Doubt Goodness Love Yourself
What we seek is what we are.
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Emotion People Seek
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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Acceptance Compassionate Let Go Wisdom
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Individual Unique World

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.

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