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.
JACK KORNFIELDTo live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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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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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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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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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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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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Most 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.
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We can always begin again.
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