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Suffering 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…
- We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?
- 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 are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.
- 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…
- We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.
- We can always begin again.
- When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever.
- Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.
- 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.…
- 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.…
- We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears…
- 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…
- 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…
- It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the…
- When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.
- Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.
- 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…
- Grant that I have enough suffering that my heart really opens to the great compassion of this world, that I be given enough so that…
- We can easily become loyal to our suffering … but it's not the end of the path.
- Forgiveness sees wisely. It willingly acknowledges what is unjust, harmful, and wrong. It bravely recognizes sufferings of the past, and understands the conditions that brought…
- Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or…
More Suffering Quotes
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. — Jane Austen
- Pain is never permanent. — Teresa of Avila
- Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Teresa of Avila