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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

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 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
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
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Compassionate Incomplete Yourself
Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Awake Different Emotional Maturity Person Recognition Spiritual Yourself
You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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Hands Heart Hold On Invitation Peace Possible Remember
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
It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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Flower Heart Light Open Ourselves Season Sun True
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
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
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
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
May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Beautiful Nature Self Love True Yourself
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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Condition Difficult Hide Insecurity Lose Nature Ourselves Protection Society
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past 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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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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