Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
JACK KORNFIELDThe only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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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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Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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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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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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We can always begin again.
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