"Grant that I have enough suffering that my……" — Jack Kornfield
"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 I don't wall myself off from the world, that it breaks down the heart and the separation and the ego and the fear, and it lets me touch the nectar, the milk of kindness itself, of something greater."
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214 Quotes by Jack Kornfield
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