Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
JACK KORNFIELDPart 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.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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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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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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