Jack Kornfield on discover
Jack Kornfield72 quotes“As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.”
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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield 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.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield 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.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
Jack KornfieldJack Kornfield Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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Christopher ColumbusChristopher Columbus One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Variants include “You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”.
Christopher ColumbusChristopher Columbus It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.
Christopher ColumbusChristopher Columbus Don’t mistake your discovery for the absence of yourself.
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