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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

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
What we seek is what we are.
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Emotion People Seek
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
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
Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Awake Different Emotional Maturity Person Recognition Spiritual Yourself
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Heart Know Mind
Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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Assumption Beginning Department Mindset Responsibility Right Yourself
Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Hate Joy Live
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Compassionate Hard Kind Life
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Defend Difference Guide Ourselves
It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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Appreciate Believe Know
The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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Basic Life Love Ourselves Place Principle Problem Spiritual Wisdom
Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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Beyond Capacity Difficult Fear Love Ourselves Reality Trust
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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End Forgiveness Heart Ourselves Person Simplicity
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

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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