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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

Jack Kornfield

We can always begin again.
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Beginning One Liner Start
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
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
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
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Choice Forgiveness Heart Regret True
Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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Battle Body Breathe Experience Fight Heart Let Go Quiet Yourself
You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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Hands Heart Hold On Invitation Peace Possible Remember
May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Beautiful Nature Self Love True Yourself
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
Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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Deal Discover Force Hate Pain People
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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Compassionate Fear Garden Growth Heart Love Plant Regret Yourself
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Bear Forgiveness Life
A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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Acceptance Fundamental Kindness Maturity Quality Spiritual
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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Awake Breathe Compassionate Freedom Moments Perfection Yourself
The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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Discipline Spiritual War

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

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