Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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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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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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