You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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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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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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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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 waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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