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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

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

Body Commitment Earth
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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Long Silence Spiritual
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Beginning Goal Mindset Ourselves
May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Beautiful Nature Self Love True Yourself
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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Beautiful Confusion Heart
We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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Awake Courage Doubt Face Need Ourselves Perseverance Right Sorrow
The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Heart Know Mind
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
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
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 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
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Awake Love Patience Understand
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
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
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
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

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