Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
JACK KORNFIELDYou need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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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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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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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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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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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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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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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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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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