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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.

Jack Kornfield

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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Born Death Let Go Live Moments Oneself
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
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Born Philosophy Spiritual
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
To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Attention Aware Life Ourselves See
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Attention Body Healing Human Remember
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
We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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Awake Courage Doubt Face Need Ourselves Perseverance Right Sorrow
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Beginning Goal Mindset Ourselves
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Acceptance Life Spiritual
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Heart Improvement Let Go Ourselves
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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Return Silence Universe
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
No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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Guide Meditation Ourselves Practice Problem Reflection Way
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Conscience Integrity Loss
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past Yourself

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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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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