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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.

Jack Kornfield

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
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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Clear Ocean Peace Purity Sky Taste Water
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Belief Compassionate Inspirational Patience Respect 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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Busy Connection Lose Ourselves World
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Compassionate Incomplete Yourself
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
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
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
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Bear Forgiveness Life
Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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Belief Limit Stuck
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Beginning Goal Mindset Ourselves
In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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End Learning Let Go Live
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Acceptance Live Miracle Repeat Time Way

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