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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.

Jack Kornfield

Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
JACK KORNFIELD

Death Fear Freedom Life Live Old Ourselves Way
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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Carry Compassionate Grief Heart Hold Honor World Yourself
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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Assumption Beginning Department Mindset Responsibility Right Yourself
…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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Heart Kindness Spiritual
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
JACK KORNFIELD

Acceptance Rise Way
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
JACK KORNFIELD

Compassion Juju Respect Yourself
To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
JACK KORNFIELD

Born Death Let Go Live Moments Oneself
Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
JACK KORNFIELD

Avoid Beginning Change End Freedom Happiness Life Move Peace
Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
JACK KORNFIELD

Joy Live Peace Remember Trouble World Yourself
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
JACK KORNFIELD

Beginning End Peace Yourself
Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
JACK KORNFIELD

Achievement Heart Knowledge Touch Worth
Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
JACK KORNFIELD

Care Let Go Way Wisdom
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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Acceptance Compassionate Let Go Wisdom
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
JACK KORNFIELD

Born Philosophy Spiritual
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
JACK KORNFIELD

Beginning Difficult Past Yourself
May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
JACK KORNFIELD

Compassionate Difficult Heart Imagination Myself True

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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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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