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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.

Jack Kornfield

Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
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
To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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Animal Body Spiritual
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True
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
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
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
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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Long Silence Spiritual
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Heart Improvement Let Go Ourselves
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
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
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
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
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
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

In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.

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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.

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