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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.

Jack Kornfield

Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Defend Difference Guide Ourselves
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
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
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
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
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
…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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Heart Kindness Spiritual
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Heart Improvement Let Go Ourselves
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Acceptance Compassionate Growth Understand
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
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
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past 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
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Acceptance Life Spiritual

To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.

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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.

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