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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

Jack Kornfield

Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Heal Medicine Philosophy
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Acceptance Compassionate Growth Understand
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True
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
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
What we seek is what we are.
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Emotion People Seek
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
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Acceptance Life Spiritual
To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Attention Aware Life Ourselves See
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
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
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
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
The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Heart Know Mind
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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Basic Beautiful Born Doubt Goodness Love Yourself
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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End Forgiveness Heart Ourselves Person Simplicity

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