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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.

Jack Kornfield

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
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
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.
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Battle End Heart Let Go Open Practice Present Spiritual
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
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Born Philosophy Spiritual
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Conscience Integrity Loss
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
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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Carry Compassionate Grief Heart Hold Honor World Yourself
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Insight Life Meditation
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
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
Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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Born Goodness Life Person Reminder Spiritual 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
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
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
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

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