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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.

Jack Kornfield

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Compassionate Incomplete Yourself
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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Errors Forgiveness Life Live Ourselves Success Understand
Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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Consistency Fun Mindset Training Way Yourself
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
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
What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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Alive Conversation Music Ourselves Path Spiritual True
It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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Appreciate Believe Know
The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Heart Know 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
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
There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Holy Moments People Place Wisdom
What we seek is what we are.
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Emotion People Seek
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
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
It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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Enough Forgiveness Love Way
…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

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.

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