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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.

Jack Kornfield

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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End Learning Let Go Live
The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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Courage Empty Greatness Love Nature Ourselves Seek True Willing
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
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Acceptance Live Miracle Repeat Time Way
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 way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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Body Commitment Earth
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
At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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End Life Love Myself Question Simplicity
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
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Compassion Juju Respect Yourself
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
Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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Battle Body Breathe Experience Fight Heart Let Go Quiet Yourself
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Attention Body Healing Human Remember
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
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
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need

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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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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