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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.

Jack Kornfield

When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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Aggression Alive Angry Change Fact Ourselves Struggle
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
We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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Heart Pain Warrior
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Holy Moments People Place Wisdom
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
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True
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
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
The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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Body Commitment Earth
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
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
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
What we seek is what we are.
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Emotion People Seek
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Beginning Goal Mindset Ourselves

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