In the end, just three things matter: how well we lived, how well we loved, how well we learned to let go.
Jack Kornfield
American Buddhist teacher and co-founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California. Author of A Path with Heart (1993).
8 quotes
Forgiveness is giving up all hope for a better past.
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable.
Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it.
You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness.
In any moment we can begin again.
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.