When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
JACK KORNFIELDMeet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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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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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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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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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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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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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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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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