Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
JACK KORNFIELDHave respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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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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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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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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We can always begin again.
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