Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
JACK KORNFIELDAs 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.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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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.
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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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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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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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