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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
When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
JACK KORNFIELD

Busy Connection Lose Ourselves World
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
JACK KORNFIELD

Bear Forgiveness Life
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
JACK KORNFIELD

Belief Compassionate Inspirational Patience Respect Yourself
As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
JACK KORNFIELD

Discover Fear Ideas Image Old Place Purity Truth Wall Willing
Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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Long Silence Spiritual
To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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Animal Body Spiritual
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
JACK KORNFIELD

Beginning Difficult Past Yourself
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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Beyond Capacity Difficult Fear Love Ourselves Reality Trust
Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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Death Fear Freedom Life Live Old Ourselves Way
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
JACK KORNFIELD

Beginning End Peace Yourself
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
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Acceptance Rise Way
May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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Compassionate Difficult Heart Imagination Myself True
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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Enough Forgiveness Love Way
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
JACK KORNFIELD

Compassionate Incomplete Yourself

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