To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
JACK KORNFIELDIn the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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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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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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We can always begin again.
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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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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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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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