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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

Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Born Philosophy Spiritual
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past Yourself
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Choice Forgiveness Heart Regret True
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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Errors Forgiveness Life Live Ourselves Success Understand
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
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
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Conscience Integrity Loss
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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Long Silence Spiritual
As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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Discover Fear Ideas Image Old Place Purity Truth Wall Willing
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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Guide Meditation Ourselves Practice Problem Reflection Way
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
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
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
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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Beginning End Peace Yourself

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