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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.

Jack Kornfield

Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
JACK KORNFIELD

Avoid Beginning Change End Freedom Happiness Life Move Peace
The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
JACK KORNFIELD

Heart Know Mind
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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Assumption Beginning Department Mindset Responsibility Right Yourself
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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Acceptance Compassionate Let Go Wisdom
Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
JACK KORNFIELD

Expectation Guilt Live Ourselves Past Planning Regret Shame Stop War
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
JACK KORNFIELD

Beginning Goal Mindset Ourselves
The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
JACK KORNFIELD

Carry Compassionate Grief Heart Hold Honor World Yourself
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
JACK KORNFIELD

Buddhist First Therapists
It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
JACK KORNFIELD

Enough Forgiveness Love Way
…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
JACK KORNFIELD

Heart Kindness Spiritual
It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
JACK KORNFIELD

Appreciate Believe Know
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
JACK KORNFIELD

Defend Difference Guide Ourselves
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
JACK KORNFIELD

Hearted Love True
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
JACK KORNFIELD

Errors Forgiveness Life Live Ourselves Success Understand
There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
JACK KORNFIELD

Holy Moments People Place Wisdom
To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
JACK KORNFIELD

Interest Kindness Look

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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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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