Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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What we seek is what we are.
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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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Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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