We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
JACK KORNFIELDWe do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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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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What we seek is what we are.
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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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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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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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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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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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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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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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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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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