"Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the……" — Jack Kornfield

"Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration."

— Jack Kornfield

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214 Quotes by Jack Kornfield

Jack Kornfield has 214 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The trouble is that you think you have time.
Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than…
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions.…
At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to…
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant…
We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple,…
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most…
Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life,…
We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.

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More Body Quotes

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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