When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
JACK KORNFIELDThe person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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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 heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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To 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.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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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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