Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
JACK KORNFIELDEverything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
JACK KORNFIELDThe heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
JACK KORNFIELDAttention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
JACK KORNFIELDIndifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
JACK KORNFIELDMeet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
JACK KORNFIELDTo understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
JACK KORNFIELDWe do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
JACK KORNFIELDThe waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
JACK KORNFIELDTrue love is not for the faint-hearted.
JACK KORNFIELDLive in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
JACK KORNFIELDMuch of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
JACK KORNFIELDAnger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
JACK KORNFIELDLove is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
JACK KORNFIELDSpiritual 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.
JACK KORNFIELDYou need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
JACK KORNFIELDIt is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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