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.
JACK KORNFIELDLife without forgiveness is unbearable.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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We can always begin again.
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
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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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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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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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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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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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