Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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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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The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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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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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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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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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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