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Things Quotes by Jack Kornfield
- In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while…
- Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
- As we step out of the way new things are born.
- The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are.
- You have to accept the way things are before you can move on.
- It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we feel most confused…
- Whatever your difficulties - a devastated heart, financial loss, feeling assaulted by the conflicts around you, or a seemingly hopeless illness - you can always…
- If grief or anger arises, Let there be grief or anger. This is the Buddha in all forms,Sun Buddha, Moon Buddha, Happy Buddha, Sad Buddha.…
- To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life
- 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…
- Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.
- Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
- As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it…
- True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which…
- In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go
- Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I…
- 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.…
- 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…
- The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle