« All Practice Quotes · Jack Kornfield's Page
Practice Quotes by Jack Kornfield
- We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to discover…
- When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment.…
- If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a regular practice for…
- As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When…
- Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
- Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.
- There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.
- In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.
- We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us—which in most cases is a very long…
- To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our…
- 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…
- 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…
- The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
- Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.
- A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.
- Samadhi doesn’t just come of itself; it takes practice.
- 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…
- Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.
- I used to think that to become free you had to practice like a samurai warrior, but now I understand that you have to practice…
- Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the…
- In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it offers, and our…
- The Sufis have a saying: "Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post." This brings together both parts of practice: pray, yes, but also…
- When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment.…
- Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
More Practice Quotes
- Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. — Richard Bach
- In practice, I've had a presence in China since 1998 with my commercial spaces and shops. — Giorgio Armani
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. — Jane Austen
- I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Teresa of Avila
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great… — Teresa of Avila
- A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about… — Irving Babbitt