As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. whatever happens does not really matter.

Jack Kornfield
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  1. In the endthese things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?

  2. In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

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

  4. Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.

  5. There is no higher happiness than peace.

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