It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
JACK KORNFIELDWe 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.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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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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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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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 waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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.
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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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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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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