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.
JACK KORNFIELD
When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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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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We can always begin again.
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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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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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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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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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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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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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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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