At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
JACK KORNFIELDPeace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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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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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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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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