What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
JACK KORNFIELDWe must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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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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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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We can always begin again.
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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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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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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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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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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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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