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.
JACK KORNFIELDThe grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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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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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.
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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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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