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Life Quotes by Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield teaches that insight meditation helps us understand ourselves and find freedom. He says wisdom tells us we are nothing while love says we are everything, and life flows between them. He also reminds us that problems become the place where wisdom and love appear.

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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?

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Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.

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There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall.

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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

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When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater…

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The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.

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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…

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Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

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“The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love. With”

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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…

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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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All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.

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It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as…

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“The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand or fearful clinging to the past on the other. It…

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Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it…

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One of the essential tasks for living a wise life is letting go. Letting go is the path to freedom. It is…

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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…

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When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises…

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When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have…

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Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to…

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Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in…

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“In this way, our life may appear as a series of mistakes. One could call them “problems” or “challenges,” but in some…

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When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very…

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Within the mystery of life there is the infinite darkness of the night sky lit by distant orbs of fire, the cobbled…

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If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a…

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“Eternity is here, always alive in the present moment. Mindfulness invites us to return to now, the present moment, instead of being…

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“Letting go is a central theme in spiritual practice, as we see the preciousness and brevity of life. When letting go is…

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In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that…

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According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the…

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We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

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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 in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.

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“When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that he or she is a being just like us, who has faced…

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When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering…

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“My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes — most of which never happened. Mark Twain”

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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…

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There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of…

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We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.

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“When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present…

In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this…

Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all…

Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions…

To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.

As we step out of the way new things are born.

For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality…

What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of…

“Working with these distractions, steadying the canoe, letting the waves pass by, and coming back again and again in a quiet and collected way,…

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

To let go in the deepest recesses of the heart, to release all struggle and wanting, leads us to that knowing which is timeless.

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.