The quieting of our mind is a political act.
JACK KORNFIELDAnger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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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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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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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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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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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
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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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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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