The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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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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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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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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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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