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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.

Jack Kornfield

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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Flower Heart Light Open Ourselves Season Sun True
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
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
If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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Clear Ocean Peace Purity Sky Taste Water
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Conscience Integrity Loss
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Compassion Juju Respect Yourself
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Heal Medicine Philosophy
What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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Alive Conversation Music Ourselves Path Spiritual True
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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Heart Pain Warrior
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
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Individual Unique World
We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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Day Forever Moments Night Open
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
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

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