"Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible……" — Jack Kornfield
"Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment."
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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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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this…
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People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and…
— Tom Arnold
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I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of…
— Christian Bale
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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory.…
— Evan Bayh
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Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
— Bob Beauprez
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we…
— Candice Bergen
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national…
— Wendell Berry
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Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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