May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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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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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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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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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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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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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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