Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
JACK KORNFIELDLife without forgiveness is unbearable.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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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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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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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.
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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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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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We can always begin again.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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 willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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