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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

Jack Kornfield

To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
JACK KORNFIELD

Attention Aware Life Ourselves See
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
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
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
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 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
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
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Compassionate Hard Kind Life
The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
JACK KORNFIELD

Basic Life Love Ourselves Place Principle Problem Spiritual Wisdom
Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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Achievement Heart Knowledge Touch Worth
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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Beginning End Peace Yourself
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Acceptance Compassionate Growth Understand
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Defend Difference Guide Ourselves
What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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Alive Conversation Music Ourselves Path Spiritual True
The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Heart Know Mind

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