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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.

Jack Kornfield

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
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Heart Improvement Let Go Ourselves
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
Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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Assumption Beginning Department Mindset Responsibility Right Yourself
Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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Fear Life Peace Transcendence True Trust Yourself
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
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Acceptance Life Spiritual
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
Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Hate Joy Live
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
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
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
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
Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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Death Fear Freedom Life Live Old Ourselves Way
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
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Learn Surf Wave

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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