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

Jack Kornfield

A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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Acceptance Fundamental Kindness Maturity Quality Spiritual
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
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
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
No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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Guide Meditation Ourselves Practice Problem Reflection Way
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Learn Surf Wave
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
Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Care Let Go Way Wisdom
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past Yourself
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Choice Forgiveness Heart Regret True
…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
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

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

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