In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
JACK KORNFIELDLet go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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.
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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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We can always begin again.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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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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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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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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