Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
JACK KORNFIELDNo matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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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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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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Wherever 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.
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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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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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