Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
JACK KORNFIELDIf your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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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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We can always begin again.
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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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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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No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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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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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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