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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Jack Kornfield

You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
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
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
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
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True
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
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
Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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Consistency Fun Mindset Training Way Yourself
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Defend Difference Guide Ourselves
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Choice Forgiveness Heart Regret True
At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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End Life Love Myself Question Simplicity
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
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

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