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Mean Quotes by Jack Kornfield
- 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…
- 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…
- In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
- 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…
- In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom. In fact, as…
- The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,' they are almost…
- Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
- We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what…
- 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…
More Mean Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams