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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.

Jack Kornfield

Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
JACK KORNFIELD

Avoid Beginning Change End Freedom Happiness Life Move Peace
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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Beautiful Confusion Heart
Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
JACK KORNFIELD

Fear Life Peace Transcendence True Trust 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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Battle End Heart Let Go Open Practice Present Spiritual
What we seek is what we are.
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Emotion People Seek
To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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Animal Body Spiritual
Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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Expectation Guilt Live Ourselves Past Planning Regret Shame Stop War
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past Yourself
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
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 waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
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
You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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Hands Heart Hold On Invitation Peace Possible Remember
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
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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Deal Discover Force Hate Pain People

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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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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