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

Jack Kornfield

Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Hate Joy Live
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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Betrayal Hate Person Suffering Yourself
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Compassionate Incomplete Yourself
No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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Guide Meditation Ourselves Practice Problem Reflection Way
When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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Eyes Healing Judgment
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Defend Difference Guide Ourselves
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Acceptance Compassionate Growth Understand
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
To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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Animal Body Spiritual
What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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Alive Conversation Music Ourselves Path Spiritual True
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
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
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
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
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Learn Surf Wave

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