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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.

Jack Kornfield

Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Hate Joy Live
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Bear Forgiveness Life
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
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
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Awake Different Emotional Maturity Person Recognition Spiritual 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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Awake Courage Doubt Face Need Ourselves Perseverance Right Sorrow
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Acceptance Compassionate Growth Understand
The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Mind Political Quiet
Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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Born Goodness Life Person Reminder Spiritual Yourself
Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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Expectation Guilt Live Ourselves Past Planning Regret Shame Stop War
Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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Basic Beautiful Born Doubt Goodness Love Yourself
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
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
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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Born Death Let Go Live Moments Oneself

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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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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