We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
JACK KORNFIELDThe only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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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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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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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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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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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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