Jack Kornfield Quotes

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• If you can sit quietly after difficult news; if in financial downturns you remain perfectly calm; if you can see your neighbors travel to fantastic places without a twinge of jealousy; if you can happily eat whatever is put on your plate; you can fall asleep after a day of running around without a drink or a pill; if you can always find contentment just where you are: you are probably a dog.

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  Running, Dog, Fall

  "A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times". Book by Jack Kornfield, www.lionsroar.com. 2011.

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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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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Fear

  Twitter post from Oct 07, 2015

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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 compassion, things come and go on their own.

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  Letting Go, Hate, Mean

  Twitter post from Feb 12, 2015

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• No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism and environmental destruction. What's called for on the Earth at this time is really a change of heart ... the question is really not the future of humanity, but the presence of eternity.

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  Heart, Technology, Racism

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

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  Motivational, Buddhist, Yoga

  Twitter post from Jan 31, 2015

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• Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes.

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  Children, Suffering, Wish

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• Whatever your difficulties - a devastated heart, financial loss, feeling assaulted by the conflicts around you, or a seemingly hopeless illness - you can always remember that you are free in every moment to set the compass of your heart to your highest intentions. In fact, the two things that you are always free to do - despite your circumstances - are to be present and to be willing to love.

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  Heart, Loss, Two

  Jack Kornfield (2014). “A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times”, p.59, Sounds True

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• In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

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  Letting Go, Cheer Up, Mindfulness

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2015

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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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  Letting Go, Block, Heart

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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 the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

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  Regret, War, Ambition

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• Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we resist and fear secretly follows us even as we push it away. To let go of fear or trauma, we need to acknowledge just how it is. We need to feel it fully and accept that it is so. It is as it is. Letting go begins with letting be.

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  Letting Go, Struggle, Needs

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• The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.

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  Surf, Wave

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• The task is not to perfect yourself, it's to perfect your love.

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  Perfect, Tasks

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• 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 create problems. Considered responses bring peace. With a peaceful heart whatever happens can be met with wisdom...Peace is not weak; it is unshakable.

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  Heart, Mean, Acceptance

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• The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

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  Miracle, Way To Live, Accepting

  Jack Kornfield (2017). “No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• We as human beings have the amazing capacity to be reborn at breakfast everyday and say, “This is a new day.”

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  New Day, Everyday, Breakfast

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• The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present.

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  Memories, Past, Alive

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• Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

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  Meditation, Illusion Of Control, Surrender

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2015

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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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  Live Life, Errors, Understanding

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2015

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• When we let go of yearning for the future, preoccupation with the past, and strategies to protect the present, there is nowhere left to go but where we are. To connect with the present moment is to begin to appreciate the beauty of true simplicity.

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  Letting Go, Past, Appreciate

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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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  Letting Go, Wise, Mean

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Meditation for Beginners: Six Guided Meditations for Insight, Inner Clarity, and Cultivating a Compassionate Heart”, p.8, Sounds True

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• 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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  Moving, Loss, Freedom And Happiness

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• Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying the same, we realize that relaxing and letting go is a wiser way to live. Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.

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  Letting Go, Wise, Mean

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• No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.

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  Inspirational, Buddhist, Past

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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 our own good fortune and in the good fortune of others... We can be joyful for people we love, for moments of goodness, for sunlight and trees, and for the very breath within our lungs. Like an innocent child, we can rejoice in life itself, in being alive.

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  Gratitude, Children, People

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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