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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.

Jack Kornfield

The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Heart Know Mind
We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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Discover Heart Learning Love Ourselves
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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Consistency Fun Mindset Training Way Yourself
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
When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
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Battle End Heart Let Go Open Practice Present Spiritual
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Born Philosophy Spiritual
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Conscience Integrity Loss
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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Alive Conversation Music Ourselves Path Spiritual True
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
When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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Aggression Alive Angry Change Fact Ourselves Struggle
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
We can always begin again.
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Beginning One Liner Start
The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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Fantastic Intimate Live Moments Oneself Togetherness Touch

Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.

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