The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
JACK KORNFIELDAs 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.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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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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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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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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