May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
JACK KORNFIELDIn deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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