Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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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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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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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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