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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?

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

Jack Kornfield
Inspirational, Spiritual, Fear
Twitter post from Oct 07, 2015

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

Jack Kornfield
Inspirational, Buddhist, Past

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

Jack Kornfield
Love, Inspirational, Death

Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.

Jack Kornfield
Inspirational, Pain, Hate

What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation...we must follow what brings us alive.

Jack Kornfield
Inspirational, Spiritual, Gardening
Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.203, Random House

When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.

Jack Kornfield
Inspirational, Healing, Eye
Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.252, Random House

Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

Jack Kornfield
Inspirational, Capacity To Love, Attention

The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to those aspects and dimensions of the self that the client may be unable to touch on his or her own.

Jack Kornfield
Inspirational, Self, Meditation

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.

Jack Kornfield
Inspirational, Moving On, Forgiveness

It is our commitment to wholeness that matters, the willingness to unfold in every deep aspect of our being.

Jack Kornfield
Inspirational, Commitment, Matter
Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.253, Random House

As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, 'This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,' then you can go beyond.

Jack Kornfield
Inspirational, Long, Mind
Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.178, Random House

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