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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

Jack Kornfield

There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
JACK KORNFIELD

Holy Moments People Place Wisdom
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
JACK KORNFIELD

End Forgiveness Heart Ourselves Person Simplicity
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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Acceptance Compassionate Let Go Wisdom
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
JACK KORNFIELD

Learn Surf Wave
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.
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Avoid Beginning Change End Freedom Happiness Life Move Peace
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Heal Medicine Philosophy
Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Care Let Go Way Wisdom
As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
JACK KORNFIELD

Inspirational Long Mind
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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Basic Beautiful Born Doubt Goodness Love Yourself
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
JACK KORNFIELD

Belief Compassionate Inspirational Patience Respect Yourself
May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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Compassionate Difficult Heart Imagination Myself True
The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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Body Commitment Earth
It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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Appreciate Believe Know
When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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Aggression Alive Angry Change Fact Ourselves Struggle
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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Discover Heart Learning Love Ourselves
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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Avoid Difficult Genuine Heart Mistake Power Spiritual Transformation Wake

At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

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