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True love is not for the faint-hearted.

Jack Kornfield

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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End Learning Let Go Live
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Born Philosophy Spiritual
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Individual Unique World
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Learn Surf Wave
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
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Conscience Integrity Loss
To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Attention Aware Life Ourselves See
As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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Inspirational Long Mind
When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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Busy Connection Lose Ourselves World
May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Beautiful Nature Self Love True Yourself
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
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
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past Yourself
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
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
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
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
To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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Interest Kindness Look
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
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
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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Errors Forgiveness Life Live Ourselves Success Understand
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
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Acceptance Life Spiritual
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
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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Born Death Let Go Live Moments Oneself
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

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