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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

Jack Kornfield

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Bear Forgiveness Life
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
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
The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Heart Know Mind
As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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Inspirational Long Mind
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True
We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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Day Forever Moments Night Open
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
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Compassionate Incomplete Yourself
Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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Death Fear Freedom Life Live Old Ourselves Way
Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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Achievement Heart Knowledge Touch Worth
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Acceptance Life Spiritual
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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Acceptance Fundamental Kindness Maturity Quality Spiritual
May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Beautiful Nature Self Love True Yourself

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