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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?

Jack Kornfield

Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
JACK KORNFIELD

Fear Life Peace Transcendence True Trust Yourself
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
JACK KORNFIELD

Compassionate Hard Kind Life
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
JACK KORNFIELD

Acceptance Live Miracle Repeat Time Way
It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
JACK KORNFIELD

Flower Heart Light Open Ourselves Season Sun True
When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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Busy Connection Lose Ourselves World
We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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Day Forever Moments Night Open
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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Compassionate Fear Garden Growth Heart Love Plant Regret Yourself
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
JACK KORNFIELD

Heal Medicine Philosophy
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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Guide Meditation Ourselves Practice Problem Reflection Way
When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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Eyes Healing Judgment
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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Beginning End Peace Yourself
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Beginning Goal Mindset Ourselves
We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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Heart Pain Warrior
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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Happiness Life Live Myself Simplicity Student
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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Compassionate Fear Forgiveness Friendship Hate Power Regret Respect Rise Transformation
Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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Belief Limit Stuck

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