The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
JACK KORNFIELDDo 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.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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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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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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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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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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