Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
JACK KORNFIELDMay you know the beauty of your own true nature.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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What we seek is what we are.
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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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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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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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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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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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We can always begin again.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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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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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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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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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.
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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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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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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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