To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
JACK KORNFIELDTo live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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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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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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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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