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 KORNFIELDWhen we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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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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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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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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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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