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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.

Jack Kornfield

What we seek is what we are.
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Emotion People Seek
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
The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Heart Know Mind
It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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Flower Heart Light Open Ourselves Season Sun True
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Born Philosophy Spiritual
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
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Learn Surf Wave
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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Appreciate Believe Know
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
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
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
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
Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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Happiness Life Live Myself Simplicity Student
As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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Inspirational Long Mind
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable

To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.

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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.

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