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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

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
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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Avoid Beginning Change End Freedom Happiness Life Move Peace
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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End Forgiveness Heart Ourselves Person Simplicity
It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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Flower Heart Light Open Ourselves Season Sun True
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 willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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Courage Empty Greatness Love Nature Ourselves Seek True Willing
May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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Compassionate Difficult Heart Imagination Myself True
Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Hate Joy Live
Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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Deal Discover Force Hate Pain People
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

End Learning Let Go Live
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
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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Long Silence Spiritual
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
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
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Bear Forgiveness Life

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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