The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
JACK KORNFIELDWisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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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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