Jack Kornfield Quotes - Page 7

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• You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.

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  Heart, Broken, Done

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• Everyone and everything is in some degree or other our teacher.

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  Teacher, Degrees

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• In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is. We can touch with great compassion the pain from the contracted identities that we and others have created in the world.

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  Pain, Buddhism, Compassion

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• 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

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• In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course I get angry, but then a few minutes later I say to myself, 'What's the use of this,' and I let it go.'

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  Letting Go, Acceptance, Compassion

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.136, Shambhala Publications

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• The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” This isn’t love at all - it is attachment - and attachment is rigid, it is very different from love.

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  Love You, Love Is, Attachment

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.102, Shambhala Publications

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• It is our commitment to wholeness that matters, the willingness to unfold in every deep aspect of our being.

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  Inspirational, Commitment, Matter

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.253, Random House

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• One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw a man doing walking meditation whose face was lit up in wonder. The man had just discovered something on the ground in front of him. Mara's attendants asked what that was and Mara replied, "A piece of truth." "Doesn't this bother you when someone finds a piece of the truth, O evil one?" his attendants asked. "No," Mara replied. "Right after this they usually make a belief out of it."

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  Buddhist, Ignorance, Men

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• When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all.

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  Pain, Ocean, Fall

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• To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully.

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  Possibility, Capacity, New Possibilities

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Meditation for Beginners: Six Guided Meditations for Insight, Inner Clarity, and Cultivating a Compassionate Heart”, p.6, Sounds True

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• The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.

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  Spiritual, Heart, Life Is

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2015

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• Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

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  Inspirational, Capacity To Love, Attention

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• A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments of grief, loss, and change. Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched. Wisdom is alive only as long as it is lived, understanding is liberating only as long as it is applied.

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  Spiritual, Grief, Heart

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• As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

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  Home, Journey, Journey Home

  Twitter post from Feb 01, 2015

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• Every individual has a unique contribution.

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  Unique, Individual, Contribution

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• To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.

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  Spiritual, Warrior, Needs

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• Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given with our hearts.

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  Spiritual, Heart, Accomplishment

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.19, Random House

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• Tending to ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves.

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  World

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.115, Shambhala Publications

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• You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.

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  Community, Needs, Forget

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• Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.

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  Forgiveness, Mean, Justice

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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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  Letting Go, Buddhism, Profound

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• The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to those aspects and dimensions of the self that the client may be unable to touch on his or her own.

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  Inspirational, Self, Meditation

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• When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

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  Suffering, Feels, Sufferings In Life

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.49, Shambhala Publications

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• No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment

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  Matter, Compass, Moments

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

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• The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.

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  Inspirational, Moving On, Forgiveness

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