Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
JACK KORNFIELDThe quieting of our mind is a political act.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
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…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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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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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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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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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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