Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
JACK KORNFIELDUse whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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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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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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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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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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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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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