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Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic

Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.

Jack Kornfield
Pain, Fighting, Buddhism
Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.23, Random House

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

Jack Kornfield
Buddhism, Night, Suffering
Twitter post from Jan 27, 2015

Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.

Jack Kornfield
Buddhism, Race, Suffering

We can always begin again.

Jack Kornfield
Buddhism, Suffering, Begin Again
Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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.

Jack Kornfield
Letting Go, Buddhism, Order

We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears - to declare our right to awaken.

Jack Kornfield
Buddhism, Doubt, Suffering

We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

Jack Kornfield
Buddhism, Suffering, Doe

In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is. We can touch with great compassion the pain from the contracted identities that we and others have created in the world.

Jack Kornfield
Pain, Buddhism, Compassion

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

Jack Kornfield
Letting Go, Buddhism, Profound

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

Jack Kornfield
Art, Buddhism, Suffering

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.

Jack Kornfield
Spiritual, Sadness, Buddhism

We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to discover that which is sacred.

Jack Kornfield
Spiritual, Buddhism, Practice

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