Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
JACK KORNFIELDIt is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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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.
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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
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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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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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