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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.

Jack Kornfield

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
…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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Heart Kindness Spiritual
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Hate Joy Live
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
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Acceptance Compassionate Growth Understand
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
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
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Compassionate Hard Kind Life
Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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Awake Breathe Compassionate Freedom Moments Perfection Yourself
Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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Flow Life Love Ourselves Wisdom
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
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
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
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
What we seek is what we are.
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Emotion People Seek

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