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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

Jack Kornfield

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
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
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
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
Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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Belief Limit Stuck
Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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Avoid Beginning Change End Freedom Happiness Life Move Peace
Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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Beyond Capacity Difficult Fear Love Ourselves Reality Trust
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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Compassionate Fear Garden Growth Heart Love Plant Regret Yourself
When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
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Battle End Heart Let Go Open Practice Present Spiritual
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past Yourself
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Conscience Integrity Loss
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
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
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Individual Unique World
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Compassionate Hard Kind Life

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