The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
JACK KORNFIELDA second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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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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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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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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