The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
JACK KORNFIELDWithout integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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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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