At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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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 begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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.
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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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.
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