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.
JACK KORNFIELDMuch of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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What we seek is what we are.
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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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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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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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