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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

Jack Kornfield

Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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Avoid Beginning Change End Freedom Happiness Life Move Peace
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
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
Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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Happiness Life Live Myself Simplicity Student
We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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Discover Heart Learning Love Ourselves
Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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Consistency Fun Mindset Training Way Yourself
Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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Joy Live Peace Remember Trouble World Yourself
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Block Go Heart Let
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Choice Forgiveness Heart Regret True
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Learn Surf Wave
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
…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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Heart Kindness Spiritual
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
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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Flow Life Love Ourselves Wisdom
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

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

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