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.
JACK KORNFIELDMost people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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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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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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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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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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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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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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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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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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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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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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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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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