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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

Jack Kornfield

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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Discover Heart Learning Love Ourselves
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 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
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Beginning Goal Mindset Ourselves
Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Care Let Go Way Wisdom
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Compassion Juju Respect 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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Return Silence Universe
To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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Avoid Difficult Genuine Heart Mistake Power Spiritual Transformation Wake
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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Errors Forgiveness Life Live Ourselves Success Understand
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
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
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
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Heal Medicine Philosophy
It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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Flower Heart Light Open Ourselves Season Sun True
What we seek is what we are.
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Emotion People Seek
When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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Eyes Healing Judgment

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

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