Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
JACK KORNFIELDThe 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.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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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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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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