The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
JACK KORNFIELDYou need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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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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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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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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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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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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