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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

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Acceptance Life Spiritual
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Individual Unique World
Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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Death Fear Freedom Life Live Old Ourselves Way
The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Mind Political Quiet
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Learn Surf Wave
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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Condition Difficult Hide Insecurity Lose Nature Ourselves Protection Society
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
Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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Compassionate Fear Forgiveness Friendship Hate Power Regret Respect Rise Transformation
May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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Compassionate Difficult Heart Imagination Myself True

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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