The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to.

Jack Kornfield
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  5. A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise. - Gautama Buddha

More Quotes By Jack Kornfield
  1. In the endthese things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?

  2. 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

  3. Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

  4. Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.

  5. There is no higher happiness than peace.

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