Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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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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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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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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What we seek is what we are.
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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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Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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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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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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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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