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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

Jack Kornfield

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
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
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
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
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Attention Body Healing Human Remember
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
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Acceptance Life Spiritual
At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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End Life Love Myself Question Simplicity
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
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
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Bear Forgiveness Life
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Learn Surf Wave
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Choice Forgiveness Heart Regret True
To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Attention Aware Life Ourselves See

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