Jack Kornfield quotes - page 3

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! (Jack Kornfield)
It is our commitment to wholeness that matters, the willingness to unfold in every deep aspect of our being. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you. View quote
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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life. View quote
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In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it offers, and our task is to bow to it, to meet it with understanding and compassion. View quote
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What we seek is what we are. View quote
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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training. View quote
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As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life. View quote
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You have to accept the way things are before you can move on. (Jack Kornfield)
True love is not for the faint-hearted. View quote
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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment? View quote
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Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated. View quote
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Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do. View quote
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The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are. View quote
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We need a warrior's heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities. View quote
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There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart. View quote
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate. View quote
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Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them. View quote
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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. (Jack Kornfield)
There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall. View quote
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Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice. View quote
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A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body. View quote
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Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration. View quote
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