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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

Jack Kornfield

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
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
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
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
As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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Discover Fear Ideas Image Old Place Purity Truth Wall Willing
To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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Animal Body Spiritual
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Acceptance Compassionate Growth Understand
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
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Acceptance Live Miracle Repeat Time Way
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
The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Mind Political Quiet
The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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Betrayal Hate Person Suffering Yourself
At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
JACK KORNFIELD

End Life Love Myself Question Simplicity
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Born Philosophy Spiritual
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 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

At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

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