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 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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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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We can always begin again.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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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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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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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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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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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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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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