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Mind 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…
- 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…
- Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.
- Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.
- Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.
- There are many good forms of meditation practice. A good meditation practice is any one that develops awareness or mindfulness of our body and our…
- The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are.
- Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.
- Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.
- 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…
- Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your…
- The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to…
- The quieting of our mind is a political act.
- One of the essential tasks for living a wise life is letting go. Letting go is the path to freedom. It is only by letting…
- Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
- Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow…
- Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.
- As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, 'This…
- The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are. To follow a path with heart, we must understand the whole process of…
More Mind Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle