Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
JACK KORNFIELDIn deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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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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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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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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The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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