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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.

Jack Kornfield

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
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Acceptance Live Miracle Repeat Time Way
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
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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Acceptance Compassionate Let Go Wisdom
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Conscience Integrity Loss
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Defend Difference Guide Ourselves
The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Mind Political Quiet
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
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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End Forgiveness Heart Ourselves Person 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
Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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Compassionate Fear Forgiveness Friendship Hate Power Regret Respect Rise Transformation
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
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
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
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

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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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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