Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
JACK KORNFIELDThe willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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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 let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
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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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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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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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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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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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