To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
JACK KORNFIELDWe have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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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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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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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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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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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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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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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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