…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 KORNFIELDEach moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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We can always begin again.
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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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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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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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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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