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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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 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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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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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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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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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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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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