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Jack Kornfield

Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
JACK KORNFIELD

Awake Breathe Compassionate Freedom Moments Perfection Yourself
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past Yourself
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Individual Unique World
Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Care Let Go Way Wisdom
We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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Awake Courage Doubt Face Need Ourselves Perseverance Right Sorrow
To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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Interest Kindness Look
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
Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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Compassionate Fear Forgiveness Friendship Hate Power Regret Respect Rise Transformation
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Bear Forgiveness Life
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
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
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
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Learn Surf Wave
Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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Assumption Beginning Department Mindset Responsibility Right Yourself
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True

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