Jack Kornfield on acceptance
Jack Kornfield72 quotes“In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.”
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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield 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.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield 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.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield 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.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield 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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When others criticize us, we can reject their opinion, and Protect the self. But when we criticize the self, our mind accepts the criticism. We cannot protect the self From self-criticism Take care of what You Say To Yourself About Ourselves.
BK ShivaniBK Shivani Ego is just a feeling of having a wall between you and others. There is no wall. You belong to me and I belong to you. You are accepted the way you are.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar When you judge others, look at yourself – You too have flaws and the divine nature has accepted you with all your flaws. It doesn’t judge you. Who are you to judge?
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Jinnah cannot be honoured in India. He’s responsible for the partition of our country. No Jinnah eulogy is acceptable in India.
Yogi AdityanathYogi Adityanath Your feelings are your Super powers.
Shahrukh KhanShahrukh Khan Do you love or criticize yourself? Do you trust or doubt yourself? Want Love? Accept Yourself. Need Respect? Value Yourself.
BK ShivaniBK Shivani We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections.
Kriti SanonKriti Sanon When we accept the temporary nature of everything in our lives, we can feel gratitude for the good fortune of getting to borrow them for a time.
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