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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

Jack Kornfield

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Insight Life Meditation
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
The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Mind Political Quiet
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Beginning Goal Mindset Ourselves
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Bear Forgiveness Life
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Belief Compassionate Inspirational Patience Respect Yourself
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Acceptance Compassionate Growth Understand
As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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Discover Fear Ideas Image Old Place Purity Truth Wall Willing
Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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Expectation Guilt Live Ourselves Past Planning Regret Shame Stop War
…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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Heart Kindness Spiritual
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Born Philosophy Spiritual
We can always begin again.
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Beginning One Liner Start
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
To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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Acceptance Compassionate Let Go Wisdom
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Individual Unique World

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