The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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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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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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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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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.
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…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.
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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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