Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
JACK KORNFIELDAttention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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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?
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What we seek is what we are.
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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 have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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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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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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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.
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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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