Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
JACK KORNFIELDEvery facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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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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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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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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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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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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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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