We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
JACK KORNFIELDIn the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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What we seek is what we are.
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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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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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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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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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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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