The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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…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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What we seek is what we are.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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We can always begin again.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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