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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

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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Day Forever Moments Night Open
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
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Compassionate Hard Kind Life
Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Awake Different Emotional Maturity Person Recognition Spiritual Yourself
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
It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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Enough Forgiveness Love Way
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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Happiness Life Live Myself Simplicity Student
We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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Discover Heart Learning Love Ourselves
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
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
Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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Battle Body Breathe Experience Fight Heart Let Go Quiet Yourself
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Acceptance Live Miracle Repeat Time Way
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
Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
JACK KORNFIELD

Flow Life Love Ourselves Wisdom

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