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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.

Jack Kornfield

Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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Avoid Beginning Change End Freedom Happiness Life Move Peace
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
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
The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Mind Political Quiet
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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Basic Beautiful Born Doubt Goodness Love Yourself
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Born Philosophy Spiritual
The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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Carry Compassionate Grief Heart Hold Honor World Yourself
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
Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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Awake Breathe Compassionate Freedom Moments Perfection Yourself
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
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Choice Forgiveness Heart Regret True
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Belief Compassionate Inspirational Patience Respect Yourself
Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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Belief Limit Stuck
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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End Forgiveness Heart Ourselves Person Simplicity
Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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Beyond Capacity Difficult Fear Love Ourselves Reality Trust
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

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