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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

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
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Compassionate Incomplete Yourself
What we seek is what we are.
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Emotion People Seek
Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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Battle Body Breathe Experience Fight Heart Let Go Quiet 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
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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End Forgiveness Heart Ourselves Person Simplicity
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Acceptance Life Spiritual
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past Yourself
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
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
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
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
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
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

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

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