To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
JACK KORNFIELDIf your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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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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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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