Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
JACK KORNFIELDIf 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.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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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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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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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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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 can always begin again.
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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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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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