Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
JACK KORNFIELDOurs is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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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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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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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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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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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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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 heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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