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.
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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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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We can always begin again.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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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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…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 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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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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