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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

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
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Learn Surf Wave
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
What we seek is what we are.
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Emotion People Seek
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Acceptance Compassionate Growth Understand
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
We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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Awake Courage Doubt Face Need Ourselves Perseverance Right Sorrow
A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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Acceptance Fundamental Kindness Maturity Quality Spiritual
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Compassion Juju Respect Yourself
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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Aggression Alive Angry Change Fact Ourselves Struggle
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Defend Difference Guide Ourselves
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
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
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
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Insight Life Meditation

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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