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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

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
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
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
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
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
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
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Attention Body Healing Human Remember
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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End Forgiveness Heart Ourselves Person Simplicity
You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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Hands Heart Hold On Invitation Peace Possible Remember
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 heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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Compassionate Fear Garden Growth Heart Love Plant Regret Yourself
Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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Born Goodness Life Person Reminder Spiritual 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
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Compassionate Hard Kind Life

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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