We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
JACK KORNFIELDWe need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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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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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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We can always begin again.
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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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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.
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