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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.

Jack Kornfield

…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
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 is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Compassionate Hard Kind Life
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
The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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Basic Life Love Ourselves Place Principle Problem Spiritual Wisdom
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Compassionate Incomplete Yourself
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
Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Hate Joy Live
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Bear Forgiveness Life
The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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Discipline Spiritual War
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
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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Fear Life Peace Transcendence True Trust Yourself
The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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Fantastic Intimate Live Moments Oneself Togetherness Touch
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

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