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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Jack Kornfield

If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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Clear Ocean Peace Purity Sky Taste Water
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
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
Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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Joy Live Peace Remember Trouble World 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
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
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
When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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Aggression Alive Angry Change Fact Ourselves Struggle
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
We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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Discover Heart Learning Love Ourselves
To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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Acceptance Compassionate Let Go 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
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Belief Compassionate Inspirational Patience Respect 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
What we seek is what we are.
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Emotion People Seek
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Compassionate Hard Kind Life

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