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• May you know the beauty of your own true nature.

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  May, Knows, True Nature

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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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• 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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• 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 spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while relinquishing things that do not matter to us. A lukewarm yearning for awakening is not enough to sustain us through the difficulties involved in letting go. It is important to understand that anything that can be lost was never truly ours, anything that we deeply cling to only imprisons us.

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  Letting Go, Spiritual, Important

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• We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

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  Buddhism, Night, Suffering

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2015

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• Forgiveness sees wisely. It willingly acknowledges what is unjust, harmful, and wrong. It bravely recognizes sufferings of the past, and understands the conditions that brought them about.Forgiveness honors the heart's greatest dignity. Whenever we are lost, it brings us back to the ground of love.Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.

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  Heart, Past, Honor

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• Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.

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  Spring, Love Life, Caring

  Jack Kornfield (2010). “The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace”, p.67, Random House

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• We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from an honorable and open heart accepting what is true. Do we want to remain stuck? Or to release the fearful sense of self and rest kindly where we are?

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  Struggle, Heart, Self

  Jack Kornfield (2010). “The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace”, p.162, Random House

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• Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation fed by a subtle fear of the heart. We pull back, believing that what happens to others is not our concern. Our courage leaves us. Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

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  Believe, Heart, Caring

  Jack Kornfield (2010). “The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace”, p.137, Random House

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• 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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  Letting Go, Heart, Fighting

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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 grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.

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  Letting Go, Grief, Heart

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.135, Random House

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• 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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  Spiritual, Long, Silence

  Jack Kornfield (2010). “The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace”, p.127, Random House

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• Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.

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  Pain, Fighting, Buddhism

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.23, Random House

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• What we seek is what we are.

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• You have to accept the way things are before you can move on.

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  Moving, Way, Accepting

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• 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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  War, Struggle, Self

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• Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

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  Two, Flow, Our Lives

  Twitter post from Jan 10, 2015

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• 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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  Fun, Mind, Way

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• The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are. To follow a path with heart, we must understand the whole process of making war within ourselves and without, how it begins and how it ends. War’s roots are in ignorance. Without understanding we can easily become frightened by life’s fleeting changes, the inevitable losses, disappointments, the insecurity of our aging and death. Misunderstanding leads us to fight against life, running from pain or grasping at security and pleasures that by their nature can never be satisfying.

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  Running, Pain, Disappointment

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• As we step out of the way new things are born.

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  Way, Steps, Born

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• The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to work directly with the most primary elements of our body and our mind, to see the ways we get trapped by our fears, desires, and anger, to learn directly our capacity for freedom.

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  Spiritual, Mind, Special

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• Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in suffering, so have we. If we look honestly at our life, we can see the sorrows and pain that have led to our own wrongdoing. In this we can finally extend forgiveness to ourselves; we can hold the pain we have caused in compassion. Without such mercy, we will live our own life in exile.

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  Pain, Compassion, Suffering

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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• To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

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  Betrayal, Heart, Compassion

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “After The Ecstasy, The Laundry”, p.11, Random House

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