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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.

Jack Kornfield

The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
JACK KORNFIELD

Learn Surf Wave
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
JACK KORNFIELD

Belief Compassionate Inspirational Patience Respect Yourself
It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
JACK KORNFIELD

Flower Heart Light Open Ourselves Season Sun True
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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Discover Fear Ideas Image Old Place Purity Truth Wall Willing
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Compassionate Hard Kind Life
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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Fantastic Intimate Live Moments Oneself Togetherness Touch
Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
JACK KORNFIELD

Care Let Go Way Wisdom
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
JACK KORNFIELD

Acceptance Rise Way
Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
JACK KORNFIELD

Flow Life Love Ourselves Wisdom
Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
JACK KORNFIELD

Joy Live Peace Remember Trouble World Yourself
We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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Heart Pain Warrior
Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Hate Joy Live
Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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Deal Discover Force Hate Pain People
…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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Heart Kindness Spiritual
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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Born Goodness Life Person Reminder Spiritual Yourself
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
JACK KORNFIELD

Individual Unique World

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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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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