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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.

Jack Kornfield

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
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
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
…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
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Individual Unique World
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
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
Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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Fear Life Peace Transcendence True Trust Yourself
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Beautiful Nature Self Love True 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
To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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Acceptance Compassionate Let Go Wisdom
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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Long Silence Spiritual
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

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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