Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
JACK KORNFIELDKnowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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.
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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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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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