Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
JACK KORNFIELDAttention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
JACK KORNFIELDWithin each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
JACK KORNFIELDThe waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
JACK KORNFIELDYou 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.
JACK KORNFIELDWhat 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.
JACK KORNFIELDSpiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
JACK KORNFIELDEquanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
JACK KORNFIELDThe only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
JACK KORNFIELDWe 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.
JACK KORNFIELDIt is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
JACK KORNFIELDLet 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.
JACK KORNFIELDOurs is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
JACK KORNFIELDTo undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
JACK KORNFIELDWithin each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
JACK KORNFIELDDo 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.
JACK KORNFIELDBuddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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