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 KORNFIELDThe waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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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 waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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What we seek is what we are.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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