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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

Jack Kornfield

Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Compassionate Hard Kind Life
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
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
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
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
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
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
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 waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Heart Know Mind
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
Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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Flow Life Love Ourselves Wisdom
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
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Insight Life Meditation
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
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

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