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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

Jack Kornfield

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
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Defend Difference Guide Ourselves
You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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Hands Heart Hold On Invitation Peace Possible Remember
If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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Clear Ocean Peace Purity Sky Taste Water
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
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
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Compassionate Hard Kind Life
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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Long Silence Spiritual
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
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
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
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
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 waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Learn Surf Wave
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way

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