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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.

Jack Kornfield

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
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True
What we seek is what we are.
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Emotion People Seek
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Bear Forgiveness Life
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Acceptance Life Spiritual
…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
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
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
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Acceptance Compassionate Growth Understand
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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Battle End Heart Let Go Open Practice Present Spiritual
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
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
You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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Hands Heart Hold On Invitation Peace Possible Remember
A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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Acceptance Fundamental Kindness Maturity Quality Spiritual
Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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Beautiful Confusion Heart
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

Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.

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