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.
JACK KORNFIELDWhat 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.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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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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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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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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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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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No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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.
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