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Ancient Quotes by Jack Kornfield
- If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a regular practice for…
- It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as if it were…
- As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman
- In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that… — Enid Bagnold
- Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As… — Andrew Bernstein
- In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. — Mortimer Adler
- The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what… — Wendell Berry
- My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one… — Annie Besant
- Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as… — Annie Besant
- Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. — Ambrose Bierce