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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

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
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
It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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Appreciate Believe Know
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
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Compassion Juju Respect Yourself
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Compassionate Incomplete Yourself
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past Yourself
The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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Basic Life Love Ourselves Place Principle Problem Spiritual Wisdom
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
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
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
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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Acceptance Fundamental Kindness Maturity Quality Spiritual
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
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
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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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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