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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.

Jack Kornfield

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
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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Condition Difficult Hide Insecurity Lose Nature Ourselves Protection Society
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Beginning Goal Mindset Ourselves
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Conscience Integrity Loss
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Heart Improvement Let Go Ourselves
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
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
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Defend Difference Guide Ourselves
The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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Courage Empty Greatness Love Nature Ourselves Seek True Willing
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Acceptance Compassionate Growth Understand
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True
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 see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Attention Aware Life Ourselves See
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
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
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Choice Forgiveness Heart Regret True

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