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Quote by Jack Kornfield

“We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.”

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Jack Kornfield is an American author and meditation teacher, born in 1945. His works mainly focus on Buddhist meditation and spiritual growth, which have won him a wide audience. more

“You cannot live sheltered forever without being exposed, and at the same time be a spiritual adventurer. Be audacious. Be crazy in your own way, with that madness in the eyes of man that is wisdom in the eyes of God. Take risks, search and search again, search everywhere, in every way, do not let a single opportunity or chance that life offers pass you by, and do not be petty and mean, trying to drive a hard bargain.”

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Author:Arnaud Desjardins

“We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.”

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Author:Jack Kornfield

“Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.”

Wisdom Suffering Buddhism

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.”

Art Suffering Our Lives Buddhism Mindfulness Areas

Author:Jack Kornfield

“You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves.”

Suffering Buddhism Fangs Menace

Author:Milarepa

“When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought.”

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Author:Matthieu Ricard

“We can always begin again.”

Suffering Buddhism Begin Again

Book:Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

Source: Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

“Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“On days when the sky is grey, the sun has not disappeared forever.”

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Author:Arnaud Desjardins

“When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever.”

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Author:Jack Kornfield

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