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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

Jack Kornfield

What we seek is what we are.
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Emotion People Seek
A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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Acceptance Fundamental Kindness Maturity Quality Spiritual
We can always begin again.
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Beginning One Liner Start
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
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 you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Beautiful Nature Self Love True Yourself
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
Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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Happiness Life Live Myself Simplicity Student
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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Return Silence Universe
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
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Belief Compassionate Inspirational Patience Respect 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
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
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
The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Mind Political Quiet
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Beginning Difficult Past Yourself

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