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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

The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
JACK KORNFIELD

Beginning Goal Mindset Ourselves
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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Errors Forgiveness Life Live Ourselves Success Understand
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
JACK KORNFIELD

Born Philosophy Spiritual
Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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Awake Breathe Compassionate Freedom Moments Perfection Yourself
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
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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Beginning End Peace Yourself
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Choice Forgiveness Heart Regret True
If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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Clear Ocean Peace Purity Sky Taste Water
To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Attention Aware Life Ourselves See
As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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Inspirational Long Mind
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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End Learning Let Go Live
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Defend Difference Guide Ourselves
What we seek is what we are.
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Emotion People Seek
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, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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Joy Live Peace Remember Trouble World Yourself
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
JACK KORNFIELD

Learn Surf Wave

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