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 KORNFIELDEven 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.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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…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.
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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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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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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