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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.

Jack Kornfield

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
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
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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Avoid Difficult Genuine Heart Mistake Power Spiritual Transformation Wake
To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Attention Aware Life Ourselves See
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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Beautiful Confusion Heart
The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Mind Political Quiet
The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Heart Know Mind
Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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Deal Discover Force Hate Pain People
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
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
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Defend Difference Guide Ourselves
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Individual Unique World
To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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Interest Kindness Look
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

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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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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