As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
JACK KORNFIELDNo amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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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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No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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We can always begin again.
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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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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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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