Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
JACK KORNFIELDDo 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.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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We can always begin again.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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.
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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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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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 get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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