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

Jack Kornfield

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
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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Return Silence Universe
…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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Heart Kindness Spiritual
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
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
The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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Basic Life Love Ourselves Place Principle Problem Spiritual Wisdom
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past Yourself
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
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 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
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
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
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Conscience Integrity Loss
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Compassionate Incomplete Yourself
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need

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

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

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