We can always begin again.
JACK KORNFIELDThe 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.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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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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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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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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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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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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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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What we seek is what we are.
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