Compassion Quotes by Jack Kornfield

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance…

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Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.

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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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

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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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We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.

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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

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Strength of the Heart comes from knowing that the pain that we each must bear is part of the greater pain shared…

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“sorrow or a wound can heal, allowing us to grow into our fullest, most compassionate identity, our greatness of heart. When we…

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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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When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows…

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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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What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of…

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In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It…

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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not…

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“There are two kinds of difficulties. Some are clearly problems to solve, situations that call for compassionate action and direct response. Many…

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“The four radiant abodes are loving-kindness, compassion, joy and peace.These abodes are treasured because they are exquisitely simple, the universal expression of…

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I used to think that to become free you had to practice like a samurai warrior, but now I understand that you…

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

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The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,'…

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Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in…

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Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation…

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Grant that I have enough suffering that my heart really opens to the great compassion of this world, that I be given…

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“Our difficulties require our most compassionate attention. Just as lead can be transformed into gold in alchemy, when we place our leaden…

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As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.

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Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet,…

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

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In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course…

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To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover…

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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with…

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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…

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“When we let ourselves feel the fear, the discontent, the difficulties we have always avoided, our heart softens. Just as it is…

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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all…

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In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it…

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Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited…

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With growing awareness, you can see where you're caught or where you suffer or where you create suffering. You can then turn…

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