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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

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
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Learn Surf Wave
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
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True
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
The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Heart Know Mind
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
If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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Clear Ocean Peace Purity Sky Taste Water
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
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
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
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Heal Medicine Philosophy
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Compassionate Incomplete 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
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

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