"The quieting of our mind is a political…" — Jack Kornfield

"The quieting of our mind is a political act."

— 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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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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