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 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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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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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.
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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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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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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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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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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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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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.
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The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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We can always begin again.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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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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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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