Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
JACK KORNFIELDMeet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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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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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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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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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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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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