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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

Jack Kornfield

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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Return Silence Universe
Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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Belief Limit Stuck
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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Compassionate Difficult Heart Imagination Myself True
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
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
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Compassionate Hard Kind Life
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
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Learn Surf Wave
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
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
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Choice Forgiveness Heart Regret True
When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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Busy Connection Lose Ourselves World
We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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Heart Pain Warrior
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
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

At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

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