You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
JACK KORNFIELDNobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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 heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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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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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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