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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

Jack Kornfield

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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Expectation Guilt Live Ourselves Past Planning Regret Shame Stop War
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Conscience Integrity Loss
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
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Born Philosophy Spiritual
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
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
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
The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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Betrayal Hate Person Suffering Yourself
Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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Flow Life Love Ourselves Wisdom
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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Death Fear Freedom Life Live Old Ourselves Way
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
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Beginning Goal Mindset Ourselves
As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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Discover Fear Ideas Image Old Place Purity Truth Wall Willing
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

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