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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.

Jack Kornfield

Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Hate Joy Live
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
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
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
May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Beautiful Nature Self Love True Yourself
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Community Forget Need
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
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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Beginning End Peace Yourself
To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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Acceptance Compassionate Let Go 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
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Bear Forgiveness Life
Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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Battle Body Breathe Experience Fight Heart Let Go Quiet Yourself
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
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
Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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Achievement Heart Knowledge Touch Worth

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