"Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing……" — Jack Kornfield
"Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened."
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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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Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation…
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The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the…
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I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within…
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Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their…
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Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may…
— Winston Churchill
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We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.
— Jack Kornfield
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To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by…
— Dogen
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What is most important is to go deep into ourselves and discover the loving kindness and compassion of the buddha…
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May all beings everywhere with whom we are inseparably connected, be fulfilled, awakened, liberated and free. May there be peace…
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The soul is awakened through service.
— Erica Jong
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This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded…
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