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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

Jack Kornfield

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
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
The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Mind Political Quiet
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
A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
JACK KORNFIELD

Acceptance Fundamental Kindness Maturity Quality Spiritual
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
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
Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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Flow Life Love Ourselves Wisdom
What we seek is what we are.
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Emotion People Seek
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Compassionate Incomplete Yourself
Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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Consistency Fun Mindset Training Way Yourself
To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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Born Death Let Go Live Moments Oneself
Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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Assumption Beginning Department Mindset Responsibility Right Yourself
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
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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Return Silence Universe
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
JACK KORNFIELD

Compassion Juju Respect Yourself

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