We can always begin again.
JACK KORNFIELDIt is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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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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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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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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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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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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What we seek is what we are.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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