Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
JACK KORNFIELDThe awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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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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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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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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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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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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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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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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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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