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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.

Jack Kornfield

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Acceptance Compassionate Growth Understand
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
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
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
When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
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Battle End Heart Let Go Open Practice Present Spiritual
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Bear Forgiveness Life
Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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Consistency Fun Mindset Training Way Yourself
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Attention Aware Life Ourselves See
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Control Illusion Peace Surrender
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
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
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
The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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Betrayal Hate Person Suffering Yourself
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
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Compassionate Incomplete Yourself

…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.

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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.

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