The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
JACK KORNFIELDLive in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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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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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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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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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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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 willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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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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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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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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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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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