Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
JACK KORNFIELDPart of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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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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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Let 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.
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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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 have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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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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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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