We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
JACK KORNFIELDWherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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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The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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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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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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