Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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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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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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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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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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We can always begin again.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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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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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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