We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
JACK KORNFIELDAs 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.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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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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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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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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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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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of 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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