We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
JACK KORNFIELDLove is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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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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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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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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