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.
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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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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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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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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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us 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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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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We can always begin again.
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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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