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

Jack Kornfield

Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
JACK KORNFIELD

Joy Live Peace Remember Trouble World Yourself
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Compassionate Incomplete Yourself
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Individual Unique World
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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Return Silence Universe
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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Inspirational Long Mind
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Choice Forgiveness Heart Regret True
When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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Busy Connection Lose Ourselves World
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
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
Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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Awake Breathe Compassionate Freedom Moments Perfection Yourself
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Heart Improvement Let Go Ourselves
It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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Enough Forgiveness Love Way
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 undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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Avoid Difficult Genuine Heart Mistake Power Spiritual Transformation Wake
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

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

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