We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
JACK KORNFIELDThe only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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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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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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We can always begin again.
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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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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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