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

Jack Kornfield

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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Basic Life Love Ourselves Place Principle Problem Spiritual Wisdom
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Compassionate Hard Kind Life
Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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Death Fear Freedom Life Live Old Ourselves Way
To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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Avoid Difficult Genuine Heart Mistake Power Spiritual Transformation Wake
The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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Carry Compassionate Grief Heart Hold Honor World Yourself
Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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Compassionate Fear Forgiveness Friendship Hate Power Regret Respect Rise Transformation
When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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Aggression Alive Angry Change Fact Ourselves Struggle
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Learn Surf Wave
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
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
To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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Interest Kindness Look
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Compassionate Incomplete Yourself
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past Yourself
We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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Awake Courage Doubt Face Need Ourselves Perseverance Right Sorrow
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Heal Medicine Philosophy
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

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