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Jack Kornfield Quotes: The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
         

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

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



The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.



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.

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.



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

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



Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.



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

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



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

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



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.

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.



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

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



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

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





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If any of you are related to our main guest let me know so I can speak slowly.

If any of you are related to our main guest let me know so I can speak slowly.



I started so old, so the touring world will always be a foreign land for me. I'll never be someone who's "been on the road."

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Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.

Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.



But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain.

But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain.



Since the Lord will not force you to learn, you must exercise your agency to authorize the Spirit to teach you.

Since the Lord will not force you to learn, you must exercise your agency to authorize the Spirit to teach you.



One only has an adventure when one makes a mistake, but [as] my grandmother used to say: "You don't have to get out of trouble if you don't get into trouble."

One only has an adventure when one makes a mistake, but [as] my grandmother used to say: "You don't have to get out of trouble if you don't get into trouble."



Our lives are greatly enriched when we immerse ourselves in literature and spiritual writing, not because we are going to be tested but purely for the sake of enrichment.

Our lives are greatly enriched when we immerse ourselves in literature and spiritual writing, not because we are going to be tested but purely for the sake of enrichment.




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