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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

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.

Jack Kornfield
Memories, Past, Alive

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

Jack Kornfield
Inspirational, Buddhist, Past

Forgiveness sees wisely. It willingly acknowledges what is unjust, harmful, and wrong. It bravely recognizes sufferings of the past, and understands the conditions that brought them about.Forgiveness honors the heart's greatest dignity. Whenever we are lost, it brings us back to the ground of love.Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.

Jack Kornfield
Heart, Past, Honor

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.

Jack Kornfield
Letting Go, Past, Appreciate

It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.

Jack Kornfield
Past, Suffering, Would Be
Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.

Jack Kornfield
Spiritual, Loss, Past

Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.

Jack Kornfield
Home, Past, Forgiving
Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

We each have been betrayed. Let yourself picture and remember the many ways this is true. Feel the sorrow you have carried from this past. Now sense that you can release this burden of pain by gradually extending forgiveness as your heart is ready.

Jack Kornfield
Pain, Heart, Past

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