To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
JACK KORNFIELDThe heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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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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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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We can always begin again.
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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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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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