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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

There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Holy Moments People Place Wisdom
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
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Acceptance Live Miracle Repeat Time Way
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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Condition Difficult Hide Insecurity Lose Nature Ourselves Protection Society
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
To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Attention Aware Life Ourselves See
As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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Discover Fear Ideas Image Old Place Purity Truth Wall Willing
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Defend Difference Guide Ourselves
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Beginning Goal Mindset Ourselves
Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Hate Joy Live
Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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Achievement Heart Knowledge Touch Worth
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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Long Silence Spiritual
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Compassion Juju Respect Yourself
Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Care Let Go Way Wisdom

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

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