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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.

Jack Kornfield

The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Mind Political Quiet
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
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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Discover Fear Ideas Image Old Place Purity Truth Wall Willing
To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Attention Aware Life Ourselves See
The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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Body Commitment Earth
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
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
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Bear Forgiveness Life
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Beginning Goal Mindset Ourselves
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
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Hate Joy Live
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Compassion Juju Respect Yourself
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Individual Unique World

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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