We can always begin again.
JACK KORNFIELDYou 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.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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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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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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What we seek is what we are.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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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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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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