Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
JACK KORNFIELDWe do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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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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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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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