Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
JACK KORNFIELDTo 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.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Spiritual 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.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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What 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.
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