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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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• Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.

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  Letting Go, Wise, Mean

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Meditation for Beginners: Six Guided Meditations for Insight, Inner Clarity, and Cultivating a Compassionate Heart”, p.8, Sounds True

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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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• 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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• You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.

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  Kindness, Heart, Hands

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• If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a regular practice for people to talk to their heart. There are rituals, stories, and meditative skills in every spiritual tradition that awaken the voice of the heart. To live wisely, this practice is essential, because our heart is the source of our connection to and intimacy with all of life. And life is love. This mysterious quality of love is all around us, as real as gravity... Yet how often we forget about love.

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  Wise, Spiritual, Real

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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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• 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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• 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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• Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own good fortune and in the good fortune of others... We can be joyful for people we love, for moments of goodness, for sunlight and trees, and for the very breath within our lungs. Like an innocent child, we can rejoice in life itself, in being alive.

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  Gratitude, Children, People

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

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  Simple, Simplicity, Students

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• Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. This question is one that only a very old man asks. My benefactor told me about it once when I was Young. And my blood was too vigorous for me to understand it. Now I do understand it. I will tell you what it is: does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

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  Heart, Men, Thinking

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• Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.

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  Mindfulness, Way, Accepting

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