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

Jack Kornfield

Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Care Let Go Way Wisdom
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
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
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
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
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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Condition Difficult Hide Insecurity Lose Nature Ourselves Protection Society
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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End Forgiveness Heart Ourselves Person Simplicity
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Defend Difference Guide Ourselves
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
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Acceptance Life Spiritual
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
May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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Compassionate Difficult Heart Imagination Myself True
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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Errors Forgiveness Life Live Ourselves Success Understand
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
JACK KORNFIELD

Heart Improvement Let Go Ourselves

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

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

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