Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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 only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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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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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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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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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
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