You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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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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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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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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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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What we seek is what we are.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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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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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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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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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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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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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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