In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
JACK KORNFIELDThe awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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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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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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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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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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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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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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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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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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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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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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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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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The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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