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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

Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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Achievement Heart Knowledge Touch Worth
Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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Moment Moments
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Individual Unique World
We can always begin again.
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Beginning One Liner Start
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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Basic Beautiful Born Doubt Goodness Love Yourself
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 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
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
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Conscience Integrity Loss
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Hate Joy Live
Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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Born Goodness Life Person Reminder Spiritual Yourself
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
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
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

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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