May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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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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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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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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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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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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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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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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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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