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Doe Quotes by Jack Kornfield
- We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?
- A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments of grief, loss,…
- To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come…
- Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying…
- When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us…
- Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions create…
- Forgiveness does not mean that we have to continue to relate to those who have done us harm. In some cases the best practice may…
- Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. This…
- Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life…
- It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries…
- Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
- As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it…
- Within the mystery of life there is the infinite darkness of the night sky lit by distant orbs of fire, the cobbled skin of an…
- Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will…
- If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
More Doe Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi