To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
JACK KORNFIELDTrue love is not for the faint-hearted.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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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As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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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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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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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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