Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
JACK KORNFIELDLet 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.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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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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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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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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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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