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Our lives Quotes by Jack Kornfield

12 Our lives quotes by Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield’s voice often turns toward the quiet moments that shape how we move through the world. This set gathers twelve of his observations about the texture of daily existence, offering a gentle nudge to notice the subtle currents that guide our choices.

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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

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

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We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

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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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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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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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It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced…

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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…

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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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Forgiveness sees wisely. It willingly acknowledges what is unjust, harmful, and wrong. It bravely recognizes sufferings of the past, and understands the…

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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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We need courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart. We…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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