The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
JACK KORNFIELDThe basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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