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Jack Kornfield

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
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Compassionate Incomplete Yourself
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
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
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
The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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Courage Empty Greatness Love Nature Ourselves Seek True Willing
To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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Avoid Difficult Genuine Heart Mistake Power Spiritual Transformation Wake
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
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
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
What we seek is what we are.
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Emotion People Seek
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Born Philosophy Spiritual
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
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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Beginning End Peace Yourself
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Bear Forgiveness Life
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Block Go Heart Let

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