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.
JACK KORNFIELDTo live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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 live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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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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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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We can always begin again.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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