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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.

Jack Kornfield

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
Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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Fear Life Peace Transcendence True Trust Yourself
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
To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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Avoid Difficult Genuine Heart Mistake Power Spiritual Transformation Wake
A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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Acceptance Fundamental Kindness Maturity Quality Spiritual
When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
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Battle End Heart Let Go Open Practice Present Spiritual
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
Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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Return Silence Universe
The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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Fantastic Intimate Live Moments Oneself Togetherness Touch
When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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Eyes Healing Judgment
When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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Busy Connection Lose Ourselves World
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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Compassionate Fear Garden Growth Heart Love Plant Regret Yourself
Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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Battle Body Breathe Experience Fight Heart Let Go Quiet Yourself
…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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Heart Kindness Spiritual
The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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Body Commitment Earth
As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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Discover Fear Ideas Image Old Place Purity Truth Wall Willing

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.

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