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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

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True
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
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Defend Difference Guide Ourselves
The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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Carry Compassionate Grief Heart Hold Honor World Yourself
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 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
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
Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Hate Joy Live
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
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
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
What we seek is what we are.
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Emotion People Seek
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
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

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

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