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.
JACK KORNFIELDMuch of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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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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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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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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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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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No 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.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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