Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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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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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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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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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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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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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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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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