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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Jack Kornfield

To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
JACK KORNFIELD

Attention Aware Life Ourselves See
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
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
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Individual Unique World
There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Holy Moments People Place Wisdom
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
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
It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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Appreciate Believe Know
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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End Forgiveness Heart Ourselves Person Simplicity
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Insight Life Meditation
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past Yourself
To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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Acceptance Compassionate Let Go Wisdom
Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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Flow Life Love Ourselves Wisdom
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Compassionate Hard Kind Life
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

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

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