Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
JACK KORNFIELDWe can always begin again.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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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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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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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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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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