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Pain 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,…
- In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is.…
- We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
- We each have been betrayed. Let yourself picture and remember the many ways this is true. Feel the sorrow you have carried from this past.…
- It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer or in song.…
- But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of…
- When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We…
- We need courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart. We need energy, commitment,…
- 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…
- Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
- 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…
- According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life.
More Pain Quotes
- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
- Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons. — Lance Armstrong
- Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. — Marcus Aurelius
- What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the… — Paul Auster
- Pain is never permanent. — Teresa of Avila