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• The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

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  Wise, Spiritual, And Love

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.71, Random House

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• The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

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  Yoga, Matter, Moments

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.14, Random House

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• Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

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  Moving, Loss, Freedom And Happiness

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• Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.

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  Compassion, Giving, Hatred

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• Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?

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  Kindness, Kind, Life Is

  Twitter post from Oct 09, 2015

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• Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

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  Spiritual, Acceptance, Self

  Twitter post from Dec 11, 2014

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• At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

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  Love, Inspirational, Death

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• Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

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  Compassion, Juju, Respect Yourself

  Jack Kornfield (2014). “A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times”, p.27, Sounds True

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• The task is not to perfect yourself, it's to perfect your love.

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  Perfect, Tasks

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• When we let go of yearning for the future, preoccupation with the past, and strategies to protect the present, there is nowhere left to go but where we are. To connect with the present moment is to begin to appreciate the beauty of true simplicity.

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  Letting Go, Past, Appreciate

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• True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed.

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  Individuality, Void, Emptiness

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• It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can't close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.

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  Flower, Heart, Night

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• Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

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  Wisdom, Peace, Buddhist

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2015

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• Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.

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  Meditation Practice, Holding On, Moments

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• 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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  Responsibility, Mind, World

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• To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life

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  Attention, All Things

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.13, Random House

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• Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.

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  Inspirational, Pain, Hate

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• A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

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  Kindness, Acceptance, Compassion

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• In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

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  Acceptance, Self, Understanding

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.136, Shambhala Publications

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• We as human beings have the amazing capacity to be reborn at breakfast everyday and say, “This is a new day.”

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  New Day, Everyday, Breakfast

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• In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.

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  Heart, Mean, Ends

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.54, Shambhala Publications

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• It is the place of feeling that binds us or frees us.

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  Feelings

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.107, Random House

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• The emotional wisdom of the heart is simple. When we accept our human feelings, a remarkable transformation occurs. Tenderness and wisdom arise naturally and spontaneously. Where we once sought strength over others, now our strength becomes our own; where we once sought to defend ourselves, we laugh.

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  Heart, Simple, Emotional

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• As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.

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  Wall, Ideas, Insecurity

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• The trouble is that you think you have time.

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  Procrastination, Thinking, Trouble

  Jack Kornfield (1994). “Buddha's Little Instruction Book”, Bantam

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