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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

Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Compassionate Hard Kind Life
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
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
You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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Hands Heart Hold On Invitation Peace Possible Remember
The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Mind Political Quiet
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
Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Awake Different Emotional Maturity Person Recognition Spiritual Yourself
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Defend Difference Guide Ourselves
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
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
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Individual Unique World
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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Compassionate Difficult Heart Imagination Myself True
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Compassion Juju Respect Yourself
To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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Acceptance Compassionate Let Go Wisdom
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True

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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