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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.

Jack Kornfield

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
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
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
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
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Conscience Integrity Loss
It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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Flower Heart Light Open Ourselves Season Sun True
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
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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Beginning End Peace Yourself
Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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Fear Life Peace Transcendence True Trust Yourself
The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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Body Commitment Earth
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
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Acceptance Life Spiritual
Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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Beautiful Confusion Heart
Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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Born Goodness Life Person Reminder Spiritual Yourself
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past Yourself

No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.

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