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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

Jack Kornfield

Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
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
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
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
Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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Moment Moments
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Acceptance Compassionate Growth Understand
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Born Philosophy Spiritual
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
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Conscience Integrity Loss
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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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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Body Commitment Earth
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Acceptance Live Miracle Repeat Time Way
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
Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Awake Different Emotional Maturity Person Recognition Spiritual Yourself
Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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Expectation Guilt Live Ourselves Past Planning Regret Shame Stop War
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Individual Unique World
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
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
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
What we seek is what we are.
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Emotion People Seek
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Bear Forgiveness Life
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
What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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Alive Conversation Music Ourselves Path Spiritual True
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Compassionate Hard Kind Life
Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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Deal Discover Force Hate Pain People

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