Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
JACK KORNFIELDLife without forgiveness is unbearable.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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