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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.

Jack Kornfield

At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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End Life Love Myself Question Simplicity
Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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Happiness Life Live Myself Simplicity Student
We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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Day Forever Moments Night Open
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
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
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
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
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 need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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Heart Pain Warrior
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
It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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Appreciate Believe Know
The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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Discipline Spiritual War
If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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Clear Ocean Peace Purity Sky Taste Water
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Attention Body Healing Human Remember
The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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Betrayal Hate Person Suffering Yourself
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

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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