The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
JACK KORNFIELDEvery individual in the world has a unique contribution.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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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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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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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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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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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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We can always begin again.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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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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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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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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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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