If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
JACK KORNFIELDIf your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
JACK KORNFIELDLive in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
JACK KORNFIELDWe 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.
JACK KORNFIELDTo live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
JACK KORNFIELDDo not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
JACK KORNFIELDLetting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
JACK KORNFIELDDo not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
JACK KORNFIELDThe person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
JACK KORNFIELDThe awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
JACK KORNFIELDWe must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
JACK KORNFIELDMeet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
JACK KORNFIELDWisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
JACK KORNFIELDMost 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.
JACK KORNFIELDAttention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
JACK KORNFIELDThe waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
JACK KORNFIELDA second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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