To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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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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We can always begin again.
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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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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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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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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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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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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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