Top 42 Kornfield Meditation Quotes
#1. When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness.
Jack Kornfield
#2. There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.
Dambisa Moyo
#3. To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
Jack Kornfield
#4. Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.
Jack Kornfield
#5. The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Wilferd Peterson
#6. Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.
Jack Kornfield
#8. There is no such thing as 'staying in shape;' you either work to get better, or you allow yourself to get worse.
John Kessel
#9. You were ready to throw your life away," Kian said. "But are you brave enough to change it?
Ann Aguirre
#10. In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself.
Jack Kornfield
#11. What you treasure will ultimately require you die for it, Jesus is the only treasure that died for you.
Timothy Keller
#12. There are many good forms of meditation practice. A good meditation practice is any one that develops awareness or mindfulness of our body and our sense, of our mind and heart.
Jack Kornfield
#13. The things this man does to me are beyond what I feel should be possible. Butterflies. Fucking butterflies. Damn him.
Dennis Sharpe
#14. Christianity not only saves you from sin, but from cynicism.
E. Stanley Jones
#15. A modern story of Mullah Nasrudin, the Sufi teacher and holy fool, tells of him entering a bank and trying to cash a check. The teller asks him to please identify himself. Nasrudin reaches in his pocket and pulls out a small mirror. Looking into it, he says, "Yep, that's me all right." Meditation
Jack Kornfield
#16. The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to those aspects and dimensions of the self that the client may be unable to touch on his or her own.
Jack Kornfield
#17. Many people who come to spiritual practice are frightened by their feelings. They hope meditation will help them to transcend the messiness of the world and leave them invulnerable to difficult feelings. But this is a false transcendence, a denial of life. It is fear masquerading as wisdom.
Jack Kornfield
#18. There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops.
Jack Kornfield
#19. Meditation is not a process of getting rid of something, but one of opening and understanding. When
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#20. Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring for them in a flexible and wise way. In meditation, we pay attention to our body with care and respect.
Jack Kornfield
#21. He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
Swami Vivekananda
#22. Some people are beams of light in this world. Some are shadows. They don't always feel like they belong, or don't know how, so they stand in the back of the crowd, out of sight and off to the edge somewhere.
David Sayre
#23. Working with these distractions, steadying the canoe, letting the waves pass by, and coming back again and again in a quiet and collected way, is at the heart of meditation. After
Jack Kornfield
#24. To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.
Jack Kornfield
#25. In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.
Jack Kornfield
#26. Any idiot can face a crisis, it is day to day living that wears you out. - Anton Chekhov
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#27. In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.
Jack Kornfield
#28. True maturation on the spiritual path requires that we discover the depth of our wounds. As Achaan Chah put it, "If you haven't cried a number of times, your meditation hasn't really begun." A
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#29. 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 Kornfield
#30. To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
Jack Kornfield
#31. Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.
Jack Kornfield
#32. To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully.
Jack Kornfield
#33. When sleepy, meditate with your eyes open wide. Stand in place for a few minutes or do walking meditation. If it's really bad, walk briskly or walk backward, splash some water on your face. Sleepiness is something we can respond to creatively. When
Jack Kornfield
#34. I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.
Michael Jackson
#35. The chemistry and the comfort and trust between two people playing a love story l is key, and to have a friend that I could trust, and whose sensibilities I already understood, made it so much easier, and is a big part of why it all looks natural on screen.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#36. Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim - arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.
Jack Kornfield
#37. Story shrugged, attempting casual. "We kissed and I don't know...I might have orgasmed on his leg or something. It happens, right?
Tessa Bailey
#38. The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.
Jack Kornfield
#39. When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.
Jack Kornfield
#40. Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.
Jack Kornfield
#41. We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to live out
Jack Kornfield
#42. If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and focused in meditation; it is impossible for the heart to open.
Jack Kornfield
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