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“Great pain, when it is honored from the heart, opens into great understanding.”

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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

“Safety lies in tending towards our highest and not in resting content with an inferior potentiality..... To rest in or follow after an inferior potentiality may seem safe, rational, comfortable, easy, but it ends badly, in some futility or in a mere circling down the abyss or in a stagnant morass. Our right and natural road is towards the summits.”

May Ends Seems Lying Easy Natural Safe Comfortable Highest Safety Mere Rational Inferiors Abyss Summit Futility Stagnant

Book:The Human Cycle, Psychology of Social Development

Source: The Human Cycle, Psychology of Social Development

“For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years.”

Years May Has Beens Soul Conditions Personality Disaster Engineering Joyful Mills Bankruptcy

Book:The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America

Source: The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America

“You see, in the image of Aquarius, it's a man who pours water into the fish. Now the fish is the unconscious. It is not enough just to have it. We have to actively turn towards it and support it so that it then helps us.”

Men Enough Helping Turns Water Support Fishes Unconscious Aquarius

Author:Marie-Louise von Franz

“The elements in a relationship which seem impossible to share, the secretly disturbing, dissatisfying elements, are the most rewarding to share. This is a hard, risky, frightening thing to learn, and it needs to be re-learned over and over.”

Needs Hard Seems Impossible Share Elements Frightening Disturbing

Author:Carl Rogers

“I have learned that in any significant or continuing relationship, feelings which are persistent had best be expressed. If they are expressed as feelings owned by me, the result may be temporarily upsetting but ultimately far more rewarding than any attempt to deny or conceal them.”

Ifs May Feelings Results Deny Significant Upset I Have Learned Continuing Persistent

Book:A Way of Being

Source: A Way of Being

“Your distance from your partner is the distance from your heart. The things that make relationships difficult are some of the most precious aspects to us.”

Heart Difficult Aspect Distance Partners

Author:Stephen Levine

“If you want the other person more than anything else in the world, you're in major trouble and the relationship is a wobbly pivot. It's different if the thing you want most in the world is truth, and your partner is the person you want most in the world.”

Ifs World Want Persons Different Trouble Majors Partners

Author:Stephen Levine

“The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.”

Humans Life Is Found Answers Limits Human Life

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“See shades of grey... Act anyway”

Author:Robert Meeropol

“That's a headache waiting to happen.”

Happens Waiting Headache

Author:Mike Cameron

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