When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
JACK KORNFIELDTo undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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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 person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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