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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Jack Kornfield

The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Mind Political Quiet
Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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Beyond Capacity Difficult Fear Love Ourselves Reality Trust
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 without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
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
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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Compassionate Fear Garden Growth Heart Love Plant Regret Yourself
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Acceptance Live Miracle Repeat Time Way
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
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
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
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
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
Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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Assumption Beginning Department Mindset Responsibility Right Yourself
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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Errors Forgiveness Life Live Ourselves Success Understand
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
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Born Philosophy Spiritual

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

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