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Jack Kornfield Quotes
“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”
“The trouble is, you think you have time.”
“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”
“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.”
“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”
“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.”
“Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.”
“When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.”
“As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.”
“As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. whatever happens does not really matter.”
“The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to.”
