Latest Jack Kornfield Quotes from Interviews

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• Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.

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  Understanding, And Love, Use

• Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.

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  Found, Where You Are, Knows

• With growing awareness, you can see where you're caught or where you suffer or where you create suffering. You can then turn toward the difficulties that arise in your life with compassion, bow, and say, these too are part of human incarnation.

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  Compassion, Suffering, Growing

• Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.

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  Joy, Remember Who You Are, World

• You are the mystery incarnating itself, and it's beautiful when you remember. It's also painful and awesome and it contains unbearable beauty and unfathomable pain - the ocean of tears and galaxy of bliss. I don't say that lightly, but it's what we have.

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  Beautiful, Pain, Ocean

• Whatever you believe cosmologically, we all know the tears of the world. We each carry a certain measure of those tears in our hearts.

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  Believe, Heart, Tears

• No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.

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  World, Mystery, Consciousness

• Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.

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  Games, Play, Courses

• How did we get into this funny-looking body that has a hole at one end in which we regularly stuff dead plants and animals? It's bizarre that we got here, incarnated into this world with these bodies.

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  Animal, World, Body

• Some other people think that awakened consciousness is really about fullness or presence, being completely present for every moment, but these experiences are only one of the dimensions of awakened consciousness. Understanding these different dimensions as facets of awakening can help with the confusion surrounding the different spiritual paths. They're not leading to different places, but rather reflect the luminous and liberated aspects of consciousness itself. These qualities are not far away; in fact, they are right here.

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Confusion

• Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.

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  Born, Nobody Knows, Knows

• The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.

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  Heart, Knowing, Mind

• When you rest in presence and pure awareness, sometimes everything is experienced as love because you're connected with all that is, and love is simply the nature of being.

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  Love Is, And Love, Sometimes

• Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?

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  Moments, That Moment

• In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.

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  Crystals, Consciousness, Facets

• We can step out of our small sense of self and awaken to this reality. One of the reasons people get confused about freedom, enlightenment, and liberation is because this awakened consciousness has different facets or different dimensions, a bit like a crystal. If you hold this luminous crystal up to the light and turn it, it will take a beam of white light and refract it into the many colors of the spectrum.

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  Confused, Reality, Light

• Yes, there are troubles in the world. There's war and hatred, there's sickness and difficulty. And there is also an undying spirit, an inviolable consciousness that is born in each of us. It is who we are, and it's everything and it's nothing.

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  War, Hatred, World