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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.

Jack Kornfield

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
JACK KORNFIELD

Insight Life Meditation
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
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Attention Body Healing Human Remember
May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Beautiful Nature Self Love True Yourself
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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Compassionate Fear Garden Growth Heart Love Plant Regret Yourself
We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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Heart Pain Warrior
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
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Acceptance Life Spiritual
Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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Born Goodness Life Person Reminder Spiritual Yourself
What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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Alive Conversation Music Ourselves Path Spiritual True
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Learn Surf Wave
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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Condition Difficult Hide Insecurity Lose Nature Ourselves Protection Society
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
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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Return Silence Universe
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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End Forgiveness Heart Ourselves Person Simplicity

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