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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.

Jack Kornfield

The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
JACK KORNFIELD

Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
JACK KORNFIELD

Courage Empty Greatness Love Nature Ourselves Seek True Willing
Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
JACK KORNFIELD

Long Silence Spiritual
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
JACK KORNFIELD

Awake Love Patience Understand
It 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.
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Flower Heart Light Open Ourselves Season Sun True
The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
JACK KORNFIELD

Carry Compassionate Grief Heart Hold Honor World Yourself
Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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Moment Moments
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
JACK KORNFIELD

Defend Difference Guide Ourselves
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Attention Body Healing Human Remember
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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Awake Courage Doubt Face Need Ourselves Perseverance Right Sorrow
If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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Clear Ocean Peace Purity Sky Taste Water
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.
JACK KORNFIELD

End Learning Let Go Live
What we seek is what we are.
JACK KORNFIELD

Emotion People Seek
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
May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
JACK KORNFIELD

Beautiful Nature Self Love True Yourself
Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
JACK KORNFIELD

Return Silence Universe

Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.

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