The quieting of our mind is a political act.
JACK KORNFIELDBuddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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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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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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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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