To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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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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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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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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.
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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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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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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We can always begin again.
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