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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Jack Kornfield

Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
JACK KORNFIELD

Hate Joy Live
The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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Betrayal Hate Person Suffering Yourself
It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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Enough Forgiveness Love Way
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Bear Forgiveness Life
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Acceptance Life Spiritual
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
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
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
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, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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Joy Live Peace Remember Trouble World Yourself
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Beginning Goal Mindset Ourselves
The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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Body Commitment Earth
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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Errors Forgiveness Life Live Ourselves Success Understand
Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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Moment Moments
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

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

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