There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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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 life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Ours 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.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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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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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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