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

Jack Kornfield

Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Hate Joy Live
When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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Eyes Healing Judgment
The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
JACK KORNFIELD

Carry Compassionate Grief Heart Hold Honor World Yourself
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Acceptance Life Spiritual
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past Yourself
The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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Discipline Spiritual War
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
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
Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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Belief Limit Stuck
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 awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Heart Know Mind
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Compassionate Incomplete Yourself
Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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Beyond Capacity Difficult Fear Love Ourselves Reality Trust
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
To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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Born Death Let Go Live Moments Oneself
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender

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