We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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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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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.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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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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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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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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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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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