Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
JACK KORNFIELDEvery individual in the world has a unique contribution.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
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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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When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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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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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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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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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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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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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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