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.
JACK KORNFIELDLife is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom 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 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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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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What we seek is what we are.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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 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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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.
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