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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

Jack Kornfield

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Acceptance Compassionate Growth Understand
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
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Compassionate Hard Kind Life
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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Achievement Heart Knowledge Touch Worth
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
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
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
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
We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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Awake Courage Doubt Face Need Ourselves Perseverance Right Sorrow
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
To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Attention Aware Life Ourselves See
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
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
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Beginning Goal Mindset Ourselves
Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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Battle Body Breathe Experience Fight Heart Let Go Quiet Yourself
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

Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

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