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 KORNFIELDWithin each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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