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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.

Jack Kornfield

Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
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
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True
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
Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Hate Joy Live
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Bear Forgiveness Life
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
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
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
The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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Betrayal Hate Person Suffering Yourself
It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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Flower Heart Light Open Ourselves Season Sun True
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
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Conscience Integrity Loss
It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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Appreciate Believe Know
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
Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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Moment Moments

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