The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
JACK KORNFIELDThe quieting of our mind is a political act.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
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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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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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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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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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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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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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