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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

Jack Kornfield

Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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Deal Discover Force Hate Pain People
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
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
…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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Heart Kindness Spiritual
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Conscience Integrity Loss
What we seek is what we are.
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Emotion People Seek
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
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
Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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Beautiful Confusion Heart
Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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Assumption Beginning Department Mindset Responsibility Right Yourself
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 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 see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Attention Aware Life Ourselves See
Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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Expectation Guilt Live Ourselves Past Planning Regret Shame Stop War
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
The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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Discipline Spiritual War

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