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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

Jack Kornfield

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
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Acceptance Life Spiritual
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
Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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Moment Moments
When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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Busy Connection Lose Ourselves World
To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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Animal Body Spiritual
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
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
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
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
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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Condition Difficult Hide Insecurity Lose Nature Ourselves Protection Society
Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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Basic Beautiful Born Doubt Goodness Love 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
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past Yourself

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