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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

Jack Kornfield

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
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
JACK KORNFIELD

End Forgiveness Heart Ourselves Person Simplicity
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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Heart Pain Warrior
Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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Born Goodness Life Person Reminder Spiritual Yourself
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Insight Life Meditation
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Defend Difference Guide Ourselves
What we seek is what we are.
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Emotion People Seek
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
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
…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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Heart Kindness Spiritual
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Holy Moments People Place Wisdom
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Individual Unique World
The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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Fantastic Intimate Live Moments Oneself Togetherness Touch

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

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