Jack Kornfield Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• 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

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

  Jack Kornfield

  Love, Inspirational, Death

• Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

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  Regret, War, Ambition

• 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.

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Memories

• 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.

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  Memories, Past, Alive

• 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

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

  Jack Kornfield

  Inspirational, Buddhist, Past

• 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.

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Wise, Pain

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

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  Home, Past, Forgiving

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

• 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.

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  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

• 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

• Even time is a concept. In reality we are always in the eternal present. The past is just a memory, the future just an image or thought. All our stories about past and future are only ideas, arising in the moment. Our modern culture is so tyrannized by goals, plans, and improvement schemes that we constantly live for the future. But as Aldous Huxley reminded us in his writings, "An idolatrous religion is one in which time is substituted for eternity...the idea of endless progress is the devil's work, even today demanding human sacrifice on an enormous scale.

  Jack Kornfield

  Memories, Writing, Sacrifice

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