If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
JACK KORNFIELDWithout integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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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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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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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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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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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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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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