Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
JACK KORNFIELDTo begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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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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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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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
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Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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As 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.
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What we seek is what we are.
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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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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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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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