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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?

Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?

Jack Kornfield
Kindness, Kind, Life Is
Twitter post from Oct 09, 2015

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.

Jack Kornfield
Kindness, Heart, Hands

Grant that I have enough suffering that my heart really opens to the great compassion of this world, that I be given enough so that I don't wall myself off from the world, that it breaks down the heart and the separation and the ego and the fear, and it lets me touch the nectar, the milk of kindness itself, of something greater.

Jack Kornfield
Wall, Kindness, Heart

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

Jack Kornfield
Kindness, Acceptance, Compassion

...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.

Jack Kornfield
Spiritual, Kindness, Heart

To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.

Jack Kornfield
Kindness, Looks, Interest
Jack Kornfield (2012). “Meditation for Beginners: Six Guided Meditations for Insight, Inner Clarity, and Cultivating a Compassionate Heart”, p.6, Sounds True

Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your heart.

Jack Kornfield
Gratitude, Kindness, Heart
Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.398, Random House

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