What we seek is what we are.
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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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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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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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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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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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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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