jack-kornfield Quotes About letting-go

“Mature Spirituality is not based on seeking perfection, on achieveing some imaginary sense of purity. It is based on the capacity to let go and to love. To open the heart to all that is. Without ideals heart can turn the sufferings and imperfections we encounter into the path of compassion. In this nondealistic practise the divine can shine through even in acts of ignoarnce and fear, inviting us to wonder at the mystery of all that is. We can protect one another, yet in this there is no judgement, no blame. For we seek not to perfect the world perfect our love for what is on this earth.”

Spirituality Letting Go Perefection

Book:Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

Source: Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

“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.”

Moments Past Left Protect Letting Go Appreciate Strategy Simplicity Present Moment Yearning Preoccupation

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“In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It is never too late. Yet to sustain love we need to develop practices that cultivate and strengthen the natural compassion within us.”

Needs Moments Natural Compassion Practice Letting Go Late Hatred Too Late Never Too Late Rest In Peace Peace Love Love And Forgiveness Learn To Let Go

Author:Jack Kornfield

“The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.”

World Heart Grief Compassion Letting Go Honored

Book:The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West

Source: The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West

“How well we have learned to let go”

Wells Letting Go

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“To let go in the deepest recesses of the heart, to release all struggle and wanting, leads us to that knowing which is timeless.”

Heart Struggle Knowing Letting Go Release Timeless Recess

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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”

Wells Ends Matter Three Letting Go Mindfulness Three Things Cheer Up

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“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.”

Inspirational Past Spirit Emotion Letting Go Forgiveness Disappointment Release Moving On Clinging Grudge Letting Go And Moving On Just Let Go Knowledge Of The Past Letting Go Of Anger

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“When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice. Only in this moment can we discover that which is timeless. Only here can we find the love that we seek. Love in the past is simply memory, and love in the future is fantasy. Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.”

“What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?”

Spiritual Spirituality Compassion Right Now Letting Go

Author:Jack Kornfield

“In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while relinquishing things that do not matter to us. A lukewarm yearning for awakening is not enough to sustain us through the difficulties involved in letting go. It is important to understand that anything that can be lost was never truly ours, anything that we deeply cling to only imprisons us.”

Important Matter Enough Spiritual Lost Rooms Involved Please Letting Go Difficulty Awakening Compromise Spiritual Life Yearning Bargains Lukewarm Relinquishing

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“We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.”

Suffering Path Buddhism Letting Go Mindfulness Profound Realization Liberation Awakened Meditation Mindfulness

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“We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.”

Way Needs Mind Suffering Order Seeing Buddhism Habit Discipline Letting Go Training Genuine New Ways Habits Of Mind Old Habits

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“When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.”

Heart Ends Moments Spiritual Suffering Practice Buddhism Battle Letting Go Present Moment Spiritual Practice

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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.”

Mean Doe Hate Compassion Goes On Letting Go I Hate Hate You Comes And Goes I Hate You

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“In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course I get angry, but then a few minutes later I say to myself, 'What's the use of this,' and I let it go.'”

Ifs Said Self Use Courses Grows Understanding Compassion Minutes Acceptance Masters Letting Go Angry Self Acceptance Compassionate Let It Go Zen Master

Book:Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

Source: Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

“Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying the same, we realize that relaxing and letting go is a wiser way to live. Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.”

Ifs Way Mean Doe Suffering Realizing Wise Huge Amount Letting Go Caring Staying Wiser Flexible Way To Live Impermanence Sameness Not Caring

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“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.”

Heart Body Fighting Battle Letting Go Breathe Your Body Relax

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“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 secretly follows us even as we push it away. To let go of fear or trauma, we need to acknowledge just how it is. We need to feel it fully and accept that it is so. It is as it is. Letting go begins with letting be.”

Needs Feels Accepting Struggle Letting Go Trauma Acknowledge Aversion

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“To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.”

Life Moments Dies Letting Go Passing Passings Reborn Passing Moments

Book:Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

Source: Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

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

Heart Letting Go Block

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“One of the essential tasks for living a wise life is letting go. Letting go is the path to freedom. It is only by letting go of the hopes, the fears, the pain, the past, the stories that have a hold on us that we can quiet our mind and open our heart.”

Mind Heart Stories Pain Past Life Is Path Wise Quiet Letting Go Essentials Tasks Wise Life

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“Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.”

Way Mean Doe Wise Letting Go Caring Flexible Not Caring

Book:Meditation for Beginners: Six Guided Meditations for Insight, Inner Clarity, and Cultivating a Compassionate Heart

Source: Meditation for Beginners: Six Guided Meditations for Insight, Inner Clarity, and Cultivating a Compassionate Heart

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