Jack Kornfield Quotes

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• The trouble is that you think you have time.
• Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
• Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
• It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this…
• At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
• 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…
• The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
• We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
• We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to discover…
• We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?
• Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to…
• We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.
• 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…
• We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.
• We can always begin again.
• When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever.
• Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.
• Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity,…
• In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is.…
• 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.…

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