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The quieting of our mind is a political act.

Jack Kornfield

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
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
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Acceptance Life Spiritual
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
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Born Philosophy Spiritual
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
As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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Inspirational Long Mind
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
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
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
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Buddhist First Therapists
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
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
To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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Born Death Let Go Live Moments Oneself
May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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Compassionate Difficult Heart Imagination Myself True
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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Basic Beautiful Born Doubt Goodness Love Yourself

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