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 KORNFIELDWeigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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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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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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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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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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What we seek is what we are.
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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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We can always begin again.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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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 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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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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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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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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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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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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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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