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

Jack Kornfield

You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
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
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
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
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
We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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Awake Courage Doubt Face Need Ourselves Perseverance Right Sorrow
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Compassionate Hard Kind Life
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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Long Silence Spiritual
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
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Defend Difference Guide Ourselves
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True
We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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Discover Heart Learning Love Ourselves
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
Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Care Let Go Way Wisdom
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 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

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