To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
JACK KORNFIELDTo live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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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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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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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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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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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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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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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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