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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

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
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Block Go Heart Let
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Born Philosophy Spiritual
Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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Battle Body Breathe Experience Fight Heart Let Go Quiet Yourself
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
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
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
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
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
May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Beautiful Nature Self Love True Yourself
To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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Born Death Let Go Live Moments Oneself
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Choice Forgiveness Heart Regret True
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
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Learn Surf Wave
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
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

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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