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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?

Jack Kornfield

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
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
May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Beautiful Nature Self Love True Yourself
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past Yourself
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
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
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
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
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
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Conscience Integrity Loss
To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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Animal Body Spiritual
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.
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Born Philosophy Spiritual
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
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
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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Long Silence Spiritual

Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?

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