Jack Kornfield Quotes - Page 8

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• There is no higher happiness than peace.

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  Higher

  Jack Kornfield (2010). “The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace”, p.126, Random House

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• The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out the truth for ourselves, accepting no one's word above our own experience.

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  Practice, Independence, Quality

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• Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.

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  Home, Past, Forgiving

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• 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

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• In this world there are two great sources of strength. One rests with those who are not afraid to kill. The other rests with those who are not afraid to love.

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  Two, World, Afraid To Love

  Jack Kornfield (2010). “The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace”, p.81, Random House

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• We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.

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  Spiritual, Journey, Reason

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “After The Ecstasy, The Laundry”, p.5, Random House

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• To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so with this gift, this capacity of loving awareness, of attention that actually can be present for the whole dance.

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  Joy, Sorrow, Attention

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• It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.

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  Believe, Knowing, Appreciate

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

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  Heart, Knowing, Mind

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• In our charade with ourselves we pretend that our war is not really war. We have changed the name of the War Department to the Defense Department and call a whole class of nuclear missiles Peace Keepers!

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  War, Class, Names

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• The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,' they are almost certainly deluded. If our actions do not come from a kind heart, from loving courage and compassion, they are deluded. If they are based on a distinction between 'us' and 'them,' they stem from delusion. Only to the extent that we act from the wisdom of no separation, understanding how we are woven together, will our intention bring benefit.

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  Heart, Mean, Compassion

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• When I sit with students, I do not just want to help them solve their problems. I want to find a moment with each person where their mind stops and their eyes open. I want us to be together as if we were lying in a field on the underside of the earth on a clear summer night, held only by the magnet of gravity, looking down into a bottomless sea of stars. I want us to remember together the beauty all around us.

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  Summer, Stars, Lying

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• In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom. In fact, as one serves the mind, one sees that following desires, attractions, and repulsions is not at all freedom, but is a kind of bondage. A mind filled with desires and grasping inevitably entails great suffering. Freedom is not to be gained through the ability to perform certain external actions. True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.

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  Mean, Expression, Mind

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• To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.

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  Kindness, Looks, Interest

  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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• Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.

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  Reality, Understanding, World

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• In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.

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  Perfect, World, Earth

  Twitter post from Jun 11, 2015

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• We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us—which in most cases is a very long time—but to look at it as just that, a vehicle, a raft to help us cross through the waters of doubt, confusion, desire, and fear.

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  Practice, Long, Water

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• Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart

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  Philosophy, Heart, Path

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.159, Random House

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• What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?

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  Letting Go, Spiritual, Compassion

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• Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.

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  Hate, Joy

  Jack Kornfield (2014). “A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times”, p.97, Sounds True

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• What brings the karmic result from the patterns of our actions is not our action alone. As we intend and then act, we create [our] karma: so another key to understanding the creation of karma is becoming aware of intention. The heart is our garden, and along with each action there is an intention that is planted like a seed. The result of the patterns of our karma is the fruit of these seeds.

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  Karma, Heart, Garden

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.277, Random House

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• To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.

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  Spiritual, Animal, Body

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• Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.

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  Spiritual, Gratitude, States

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2014

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• Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.

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  Suffering, Wish, Action

  Jack Kornfield (2014). “A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times”, p.61, Sounds True

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• Strength of the Heart comes from knowing that the pain that we each must bear is part of the greater pain shared by all that lives. It is not just 'our' pain, but 'the' pain and realizing this awakens our universal compassion

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  Pain, Heart, Compassion

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.75, Random House

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