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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?

Jack Kornfield

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
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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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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Animal Body Spiritual
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
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
…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
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
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Beginning Goal Mindset Ourselves
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
What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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Alive Conversation Music Ourselves Path Spiritual True
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Born Philosophy Spiritual
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
Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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Born Goodness Life Person Reminder Spiritual Yourself
We can always begin again.
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Beginning One Liner Start
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Compassion Juju Respect Yourself

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