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• Within the mystery of life there is the infinite darkness of the night sky lit by distant orbs of fire, the cobbled skin of an orange that releases its fragrance to our touch, the unfathomable depths of the eyes of our lover. No creation story, no religious system can fully describe or explain this richness and depth. Mystery is so every-present that no one can know for certain what will happen one hour from now. “ It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.

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  Religious, Believe, Eye

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• In a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own experience. In such a society, it is almost impossible to settle into our bodies or stay connected with our hearts, let alone connect with one another or the earth where we live.

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  Heart, Addiction, Body

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.24, Random House

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• How well we have learned to let go

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  Letting Go, Wells

  Twitter post from Feb 2, 2015

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• Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

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  Breathing, Meditation, Mind

  Twitter post from Jun 09, 2015

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• The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.

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  Freedom, True Nature, Wholeness

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• Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

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  Integrity, Loses, Conscience

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• Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.

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  Found, Where You Are, Knows

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• Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha’s path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom.

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  Vision, Foundation, Development

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.

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  Buddhist, Teaching, Mind

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• It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.

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  Way, Love And Forgiveness, Enough

  Jack Kornfield (2010). “The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace”, p.21, Random House

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• Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.

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  Unique, World, Individual

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.139, Shambhala Publications

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• Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care.

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  Integrity, Care, Virtue

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• When you rest in presence and pure awareness, sometimes everything is experienced as love because you're connected with all that is, and love is simply the nature of being.

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  Love Is, And Love, Sometimes

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• To let go in the deepest recesses of the heart, to release all struggle and wanting, leads us to that knowing which is timeless.

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  Letting Go, Struggle, Heart

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• The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

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  Spiritual, War, Discipline

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• An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.

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  Spiritual, Loss, Past

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• Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your heart.

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  Gratitude, Kindness, Heart

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.398, Random House

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• As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life.

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  Practice, Old Habits, Suffering

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• True love is not for the faint-hearted.

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  Love Is, True Love Is, Hearted

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2014

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• We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to life out.

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  Smart, Ideas, Gone

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Meditation for Beginners: Six Guided Meditations for Insight, Inner Clarity, and Cultivating a Compassionate Heart”, p.6, Sounds True

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• Some other people think that awakened consciousness is really about fullness or presence, being completely present for every moment, but these experiences are only one of the dimensions of awakened consciousness. Understanding these different dimensions as facets of awakening can help with the confusion surrounding the different spiritual paths. They're not leading to different places, but rather reflect the luminous and liberated aspects of consciousness itself. These qualities are not far away; in fact, they are right here.

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Confusion

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• Great pain, when it is honored from the heart, opens into great understanding.

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  Pain, Heart, Understanding

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• With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.

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  Powerful, Balance, Mindfulness

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• Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.

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  Limits, Belief, Stuck

  Twitter post from Feb 08, 2015

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• As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, 'This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,' then you can go beyond.

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  Inspirational, Long, Mind

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.178, Random House

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