It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
JACK KORNFIELDWhen we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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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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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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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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