It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
JACK KORNFIELDEquanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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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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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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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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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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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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