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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.

Jack Kornfield

Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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Death Fear Freedom Life Live Old Ourselves Way
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Individual Unique World
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
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Beginning Goal Mindset Ourselves
To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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Interest Kindness Look
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
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
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
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
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
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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Beginning End Peace Yourself
To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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Acceptance Compassionate Let Go Wisdom
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True
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
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

May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.

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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.

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