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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.

Jack Kornfield

When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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Eyes Healing Judgment
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
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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Compassionate Difficult Heart Imagination Myself True
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
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Learn Surf Wave
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Acceptance Life Spiritual
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Compassionate Incomplete Yourself
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
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
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Conscience Integrity Loss
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 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
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Acceptance Compassionate Growth Understand
The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Mind Political Quiet

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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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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