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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.

Jack Kornfield

Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
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
Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Hate Joy Live
A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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Acceptance Fundamental Kindness Maturity Quality Spiritual
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
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
Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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Flow Life Love Ourselves Wisdom
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past Yourself
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Beginning Goal Mindset Ourselves
Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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Belief Limit Stuck
The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Mind Political Quiet
It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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Flower Heart Light Open Ourselves Season Sun True
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
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
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

What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.

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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.

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