Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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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.
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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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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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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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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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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