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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.

Jack Kornfield

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
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Compassionate Hard Kind Life
Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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Fear Life Peace Transcendence True Trust Yourself
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
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
The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Heart Know Mind
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
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
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
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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Compassionate Fear Garden Growth Heart Love Plant Regret Yourself
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 things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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Fantastic Intimate Live Moments Oneself Togetherness Touch
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 begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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Interest Kindness Look
Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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Belief Limit Stuck
We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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Day Forever Moments Night Open

The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.

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