The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
JACK KORNFIELDThe goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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When 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.
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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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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.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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Do 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.
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Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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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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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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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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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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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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