As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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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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Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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We can always begin again.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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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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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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