The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
JACK KORNFIELDPeace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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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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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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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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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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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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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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