It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
JACK KORNFIELDIn the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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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What we seek is what we are.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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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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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
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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 waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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