Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
JACK KORNFIELDEven Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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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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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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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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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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What we seek is what we are.
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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
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