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The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Jack Kornfield

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
JACK KORNFIELD

Born Death Let Go Live Moments Oneself
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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Battle End Heart Let Go Open Practice Present Spiritual
The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Heart Know Mind
As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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Inspirational Long Mind
Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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Happiness Life Live Myself Simplicity Student
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
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
…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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Heart Kindness Spiritual
The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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Courage Empty Greatness Love Nature Ourselves Seek True Willing
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
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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Carry Compassionate Grief Heart Hold Honor World Yourself
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
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.
JACK KORNFIELD

End Learning Let Go Live
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Belief Compassionate Inspirational Patience Respect Yourself

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