Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
JACK KORNFIELDMay I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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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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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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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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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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