Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
JACK KORNFIELDWithin each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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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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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks 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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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
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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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What we seek is what we are.
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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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…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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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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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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