The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
JACK KORNFIELDWeigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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What we seek is what we are.
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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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