Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
JACK KORNFIELDThe goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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What we seek is what we are.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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We can always begin again.
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