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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.

Jack Kornfield

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
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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Happiness Life Live Myself Simplicity Student
In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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End Learning Let Go Live
Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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Avoid Beginning Change End Freedom Happiness Life Move Peace
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Born Philosophy Spiritual
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
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
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
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True
To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Attention Aware Life Ourselves See
Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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Compassionate Fear Forgiveness Friendship Hate Power Regret Respect Rise Transformation
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
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way

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