Jack Kornfield Quotes

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• No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism and environmental destruction. What's called for on the Earth at this time is really a change of heart ... the question is really not the future of humanity, but the presence of eternity.

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  Heart, Technology, Racism

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• If you can sit quietly after difficult news; if in financial downturns you remain perfectly calm; if you can see your neighbors travel to fantastic places without a twinge of jealousy; if you can happily eat whatever is put on your plate; you can fall asleep after a day of running around without a drink or a pill; if you can always find contentment just where you are: you are probably a dog.

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  Running, Dog, Fall

  "A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times". Book by Jack Kornfield, www.lionsroar.com. 2011.

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• The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Fear

  Twitter post from Oct 07, 2015

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• Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes.

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  Children, Suffering, Wish

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• Whatever your difficulties - a devastated heart, financial loss, feeling assaulted by the conflicts around you, or a seemingly hopeless illness - you can always remember that you are free in every moment to set the compass of your heart to your highest intentions. In fact, the two things that you are always free to do - despite your circumstances - are to be present and to be willing to love.

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  Heart, Loss, Two

  Jack Kornfield (2014). “A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times”, p.59, Sounds True

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• In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

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  Letting Go, Cheer Up, Mindfulness

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2015

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• If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

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  Motivational, Buddhist, Yoga

  Twitter post from Jan 31, 2015

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• Meditation takes discipline, just like learning how to play piano. If you want to learn how to play the piano, it takes more than a few minutes a day, once a while, here and there. If you really want to learn any important skill, whether it is playing piano or meditation, it grows with perseverance, patience, and systematic training.

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  Perseverance, Play, Skills

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• The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present.

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  Memories, Past, Alive

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• Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

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  Regret, War, Ambition

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• The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

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  Yoga, Matter, Moments

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.14, Random House

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• Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions create problems. Considered responses bring peace. With a peaceful heart whatever happens can be met with wisdom...Peace is not weak; it is unshakable.

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  Heart, Mean, Acceptance

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• The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.

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  Surf, Wave

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• We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

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  Letting Go, Block, Heart

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• May you know the beauty of your own true nature.

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  May, Knows, True Nature

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• To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life

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  Attention, All Things

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.13, Random House

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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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  Love, Inspirational, Death

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• I used to think that to become free you had to practice like a samurai warrior, but now I understand that you have to practice like a devoted mother of a newborn child. It takes the same energy but has a completely different quality. It's compassion and presence rather than having to defeat the enemy in battle.

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  Mother, Children, Warrior

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• To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

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  Life, Letting Go, Passing Moments

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.177, Shambhala Publications

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• Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.

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  Compassion, Giving, Hatred

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• Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

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  Compassion, Juju, Respect Yourself

  Jack Kornfield (2014). “A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times”, p.27, Sounds True

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• Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

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  Letting Go, Heart, Fighting

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• Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying the same, we realize that relaxing and letting go is a wiser way to live. Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.

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  Letting Go, Wise, Mean

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• Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.

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  Compassion, Practice, Perfect

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• 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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  Spiritual, Maturity, Emotional

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