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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

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
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Conscience Integrity Loss
The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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Courage Empty Greatness Love Nature Ourselves Seek True Willing
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
…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
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Heart Know Mind
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Block Go Heart Let
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Compassionate Hard Kind Life
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
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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Condition Difficult Hide Insecurity Lose Nature Ourselves Protection Society
Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Hate Joy Live
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Individual Unique World
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Acceptance Compassionate Growth Understand
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

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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