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Difficulty Quotes by Jack Kornfield
- Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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,…
- It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we feel most confused…
- Whatever your difficulties - a devastated heart, financial loss, feeling assaulted by the conflicts around you, or a seemingly hopeless illness - you can always…
- May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
- To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the…
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- Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. — Marcus Aurelius
- Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty. — Paul Auster
- Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath… — Jean Baudrillard
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- Difficulties and obstacles are God's challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them… — A B Simpson