Jack Kornfield Quotes

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 KORNFIELD

Inspirational Long Mind
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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Acceptance Live Miracle Repeat Time Way
Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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Basic Beautiful Born Doubt Goodness Love Yourself
Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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Deal Discover Force Hate Pain People
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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Aggression Alive Angry Change Fact Ourselves Struggle
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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End Forgiveness Heart Ourselves Person Simplicity
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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Eyes Healing Judgment
If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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Clear Ocean Peace Purity Sky Taste Water
Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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Fear Life Peace Transcendence True Trust Yourself
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Choice Forgiveness Heart Regret True
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Born Philosophy Spiritual
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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Achievement Heart Knowledge Touch Worth
Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
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Care Let Go Way Wisdom
What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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Alive Conversation Music Ourselves Path Spiritual True
It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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Flower Heart Light Open Ourselves Season Sun True
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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Belief Compassionate Inspirational Patience Respect Yourself
May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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Compassionate Difficult Heart Imagination Myself True
Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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Joy Live Peace Remember Trouble World Yourself
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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Beyond Capacity Difficult Fear Love Ourselves Reality Trust
The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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Courage Empty Greatness Love Nature Ourselves Seek True Willing
May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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Beautiful Nature Self Love True Yourself
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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Awake Different Emotional Maturity Person Recognition Spiritual Yourself
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
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Acceptance Life Spiritual
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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Avoid Beginning Change End Freedom Happiness Life Move Peace
The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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Basic Life Love Ourselves Place Principle Problem Spiritual Wisdom
At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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End Life Love Myself Question Simplicity
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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Errors Forgiveness Life Live Ourselves Success Understand

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