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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

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Insight Life Meditation
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
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
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
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
Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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Compassionate Fear Forgiveness Friendship Hate Power Regret Respect Rise Transformation
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Attention Body Healing Human Remember
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
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
At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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End Life Love Myself Question Simplicity
We can always begin again.
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Beginning One Liner Start
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Born Philosophy Spiritual
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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Busy Connection Lose Ourselves World
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Defend Difference Guide Ourselves
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
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
When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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Aggression Alive Angry Change Fact Ourselves Struggle
The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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Courage Empty Greatness Love Nature Ourselves Seek True Willing
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Beginning Goal Mindset Ourselves
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
Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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Awake Breathe Compassionate Freedom Moments Perfection Yourself
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

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