As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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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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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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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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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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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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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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Let 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.
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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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