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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.

Jack Kornfield

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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Expectation Guilt Live Ourselves Past Planning Regret Shame Stop War
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
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
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
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
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
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
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Acceptance Live Miracle Repeat Time Way
No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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Guide Meditation Ourselves Practice Problem Reflection Way
Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Care Let Go Way Wisdom
As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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Discover Fear Ideas Image Old Place Purity Truth Wall Willing
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Holy Moments People Place Wisdom
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Defend Difference Guide Ourselves
May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Beautiful Nature Self Love True Yourself
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

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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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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