Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
JACK KORNFIELDTo see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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What we seek is what we 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 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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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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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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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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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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