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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.

Jack Kornfield

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
To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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Avoid Difficult Genuine Heart Mistake Power Spiritual Transformation Wake
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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Basic Life Love Ourselves Place Principle Problem Spiritual Wisdom
To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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Animal Body Spiritual
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
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
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
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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End Forgiveness Heart Ourselves Person Simplicity
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
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
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Choice Forgiveness Heart Regret True
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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Body Commitment Earth
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Individual Unique World
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Defend Difference Guide Ourselves

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