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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

No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past Yourself
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 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
It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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Appreciate Believe Know
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
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Acceptance Life Spiritual
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
Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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Assumption Beginning Department Mindset Responsibility Right Yourself
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Insight Life Meditation
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Born Philosophy Spiritual
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
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
May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Beautiful Nature Self Love True Yourself
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
Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Hate Joy Live

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