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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.

Jack Kornfield

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
When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
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Battle End Heart Let Go Open Practice Present Spiritual
Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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Consistency Fun Mindset Training Way Yourself
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
We can always begin again.
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Beginning One Liner Start
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past Yourself
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Compassion Juju Respect Yourself
The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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Body Commitment Earth
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
Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Awake Different Emotional Maturity Person Recognition Spiritual Yourself
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
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Acceptance Compassionate Growth Understand
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
Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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Fear Life Peace Transcendence True Trust 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

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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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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