Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
JACK KORNFIELDKnowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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 basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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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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