« All Way Quotes · Jack Kornfield's Page
Way Quotes by Jack Kornfield
- 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 need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a…
- 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…
- The questions asked at the end of lie are very simple ones: Did I love well? Did I love the people around me, my community,…
- Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
- Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is the reality of…
- There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.
- Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
- 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.…
- 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…
- Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
- The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
- With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.
- It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
- 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.
- The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our…
- You have to accept the way things are before you can move on.
- The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to…
- Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.
- The longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way of spiritual initiation…
- You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly…
- Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
- Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways,…
More Ways to Read Way Quotes by Jack Kornfield
More Way Quotes
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a… — J. J. Abrams
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen