Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
JACK KORNFIELDWeigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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 willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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