"In our charade with ourselves we pretend that……" — Jack Kornfield
"In our charade with ourselves we pretend that our war is not really war. We have changed the name of the War Department to the Defense Department and call a whole class of nuclear missiles Peace Keepers!"
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214 Quotes by Jack Kornfield
Jack Kornfield has 214 quotes on this site.
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The trouble is that you think you have time.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than…
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions.…
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to…
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant…
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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple,…
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We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most…
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Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life,…
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We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.
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