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Buddhism Quotes by Jack Kornfield
- 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.…
- We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears…
- Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
More Buddhism Quotes
- Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar. — Karen Armstrong
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- Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in… — Sulak Sivaraksa
- Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That's why Buddhism teaches… — Hsuan Hua
- To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves. — Dogen
- The first precept in Buddhism is "Do not kill." This precept is not merely a legalistic prohibition, but a realization of our… — Unknown Author
- In Buddhism, mindfulness is the key. Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things and all activities, producing the power… — Nhat Hanh
- Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain present. Not… — Rajneesh
- Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not… — Pema Chodron
- Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche