The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
JACK KORNFIELDWherever 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.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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 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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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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We 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.
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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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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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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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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