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Jack Kornfield

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
Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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Achievement Heart Knowledge Touch Worth
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past Yourself
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Bear Forgiveness Life
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Belief Compassionate Inspirational Patience Respect Yourself
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True
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
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
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Individual Unique World
The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Mind Political Quiet
Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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Compassionate Fear Forgiveness Friendship Hate Power Regret Respect Rise Transformation
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
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
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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Acceptance Compassionate Let Go Wisdom
Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Awake Different Emotional Maturity Person Recognition Spiritual Yourself

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