To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
JACK KORNFIELDWhat we seek is what we are.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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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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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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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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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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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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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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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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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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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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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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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