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

Jack Kornfield

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
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
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
We can always begin again.
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Beginning One Liner Start
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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Deal Discover Force Hate Pain People
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
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
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
Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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Beyond Capacity Difficult Fear Love Ourselves Reality Trust
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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Hands Heart Hold On Invitation Peace Possible Remember
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Learn Surf Wave
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
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists

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