Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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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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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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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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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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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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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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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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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 willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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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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