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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?

Jack Kornfield

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
Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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Expectation Guilt Live Ourselves Past Planning Regret Shame Stop War
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past 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
In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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End Learning Let Go Live
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
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
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Hate Joy Live
…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
The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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Body Commitment Earth
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Belief Compassionate Inspirational Patience Respect Yourself
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
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Individual Unique World
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
JACK KORNFIELD

Acceptance Life Spiritual

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