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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

Jack Kornfield

Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
JACK KORNFIELD

Moment Moments
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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Battle End Heart Let Go Open Practice Present Spiritual
…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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Heart Kindness Spiritual
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 KORNFIELD

Discover Heart Learning Love Ourselves
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Forgiveness Life Unbearable
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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Avoid Difficult Genuine Heart Mistake Power Spiritual Transformation Wake
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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Compassionate Difficult Heart Imagination Myself True
Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
JACK KORNFIELD

Long Silence Spiritual
The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
JACK KORNFIELD

Carry Compassionate Grief Heart Hold Honor World Yourself
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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Discipline Spiritual War
Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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Deal Discover Force Hate Pain People
What we seek is what we are.
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Emotion People Seek
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Hearted Love True
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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Discover Fear Ideas Image Old Place Purity Truth Wall Willing
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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Acceptance Compassionate Let Go Wisdom

The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

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