When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
JACK KORNFIELDLife without forgiveness is unbearable.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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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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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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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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