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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.

Jack Kornfield

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
We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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Day Forever Moments Night Open
We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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Discover Heart Learning Love Ourselves
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Compassion Juju Respect 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 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
The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Mind Political Quiet
Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
JACK KORNFIELD

Long Silence Spiritual
Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Awake Different Emotional Maturity Person Recognition Spiritual Yourself
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Compassionate Incomplete Yourself
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Bear Forgiveness Life
It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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Flower Heart Light Open Ourselves Season Sun True
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
JACK KORNFIELD

Born Philosophy Spiritual
Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Care Let Go Way Wisdom

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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