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The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?

Jack Kornfield

Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
JACK KORNFIELD

Fear Life Peace Transcendence True Trust Yourself
…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
JACK KORNFIELD

Heart Kindness Spiritual
Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
JACK KORNFIELD

Hate Joy Live
Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
JACK KORNFIELD

Return Silence Universe
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
JACK KORNFIELD

Block Go Heart Let
The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
JACK KORNFIELD

Betrayal Hate Person Suffering Yourself
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
JACK KORNFIELD

Learn Surf Wave
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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Guide Meditation Ourselves Practice Problem Reflection Way
The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
JACK KORNFIELD

Heart Know Mind
As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
JACK KORNFIELD

Inspirational Long Mind
The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
JACK KORNFIELD

Discipline Spiritual War
Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
JACK KORNFIELD

Deal Discover Force Hate Pain People
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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Eyes Healing Judgment
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
JACK KORNFIELD

Attention Body Healing Human Remember
Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
JACK KORNFIELD

Flow Life Love Ourselves Wisdom
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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Condition Difficult Hide Insecurity Lose Nature Ourselves Protection Society

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