…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
JACK KORNFIELDNo matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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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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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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We can always begin again.
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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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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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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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