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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.

Jack Kornfield

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
The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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Discipline Spiritual War
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
Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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Battle Body Breathe Experience Fight Heart Let Go Quiet Yourself
It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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Enough Forgiveness Love Way
Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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Achievement Heart Knowledge Touch Worth
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
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Born Philosophy Spiritual
The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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Carry Compassionate Grief Heart Hold Honor World Yourself
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Acceptance Life Spiritual
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Heal Medicine Philosophy
To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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Interest Kindness Look
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Individual Unique World
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Compassion Juju Respect 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
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

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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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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