Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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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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It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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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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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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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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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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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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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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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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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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