May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
JACK KORNFIELDAttention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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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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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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