Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
JACK KORNFIELDIt is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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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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What we seek is what we are.
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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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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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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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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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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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