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Jack Kornfield Inspirational Quotes (138)

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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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What we seek is what we are.
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We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to life out.
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You are the mystery incarnating itself, and it's beautiful when you remember. It's also painful and awesome and it contains unbearable beauty and unfathomable pain - the ocean of tears and galaxy of bliss. I don't say that lightly, but it's what we have.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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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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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life
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Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.
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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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To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so with this gift, this capacity of loving awareness, of attention that actually can be present for the whole dance.
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The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.
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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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There is no higher happiness than peace.
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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life.
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