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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

When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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Eyes Healing Judgment
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
To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Attention Aware Life Ourselves See
Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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Born Goodness Life Person Reminder Spiritual Yourself
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
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
Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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Battle Body Breathe Experience Fight Heart Let Go Quiet Yourself
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
We can always begin again.
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Beginning One Liner Start
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
Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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Consistency Fun Mindset Training Way Yourself
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
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
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past Yourself
…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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Heart Kindness Spiritual

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