Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
JACK KORNFIELDIf your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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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.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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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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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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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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Wherever 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.
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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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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.
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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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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.
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