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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.

Jack Kornfield

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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Alive Conversation Music Ourselves Path Spiritual True
We can always begin again.
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Beginning One Liner Start
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
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
To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Attention Aware Life Ourselves See
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True
The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Mind Political Quiet
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Attention Body Healing Human Remember
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
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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Errors Forgiveness Life Live Ourselves Success Understand
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
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Conscience Integrity Loss
The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Heart Know Mind
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
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
To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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Avoid Difficult Genuine Heart Mistake Power Spiritual Transformation Wake

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