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.
JACK KORNFIELDIn the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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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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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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What we seek is what we are.
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When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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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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