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Own Quotes by Jack Kornfield
- 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,…
- 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…
- The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to…
- Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own…
- In a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own experience. In such a society, it is…
- The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out the truth for…
- 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…
- Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own good…
- The emotional wisdom of the heart is simple. When we accept our human feelings, a remarkable transformation occurs. Tenderness and wisdom arise naturally and spontaneously.…
- Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just,…
- When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising…
- Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
- 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…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov