The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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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We can always begin again.
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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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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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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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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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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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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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