The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
JACK KORNFIELDMost 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.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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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.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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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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