Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
JACK KORNFIELDIt 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.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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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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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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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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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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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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