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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

May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Beautiful Nature Self Love True Yourself
Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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Joy Live Peace Remember Trouble World 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
The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Mind Political Quiet
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Heal Medicine Philosophy
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
Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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Awake Breathe Compassionate Freedom Moments Perfection Yourself
Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Awake Different Emotional Maturity Person Recognition Spiritual Yourself
When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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Eyes Healing Judgment
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
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
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
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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Long Silence 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
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past Yourself

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

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