The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
JACK KORNFIELDIf 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.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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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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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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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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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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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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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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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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