Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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You are the mystery incarnating itself, and it's beautiful when you remember. It's also painful and awesome and it contains unbearable beauty and unfathomable pain - the ocean of tears and galaxy of bliss. I don't say that lightly, but it's what we have.

Jack Kornfield's Popular Quotes

What we seek is what we are.

- Jack Kornfield

Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we resist and fear sec…

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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

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No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism an…

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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.

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

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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.

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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?

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

- Jack Kornfield