True love is not for the faint-hearted.
JACK KORNFIELDTrain your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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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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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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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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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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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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