The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
JACK KORNFIELDIt 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.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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What we seek is what we are.
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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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