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Jack Kornfield Quotes about Suffering

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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes.

Children, Suffering, Wish

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

Buddhism, Night, Suffering

Twitter post from Jan 27, 2015

Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in suffering, so have we. If we look honestly at our life, we can see the sorrows and pain that have led to our own wrongdoing. In this we can finally extend forgiveness to ourselves; we can hold the pain we have caused in compassion. Without such mercy, we will live our own life in exile.

Pain, Compassion, Suffering

Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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

Buddhism, Race, Suffering

We can always begin again.

Buddhism, Suffering, Begin Again

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

It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.

Past, Suffering, Would Be

Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you're knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?

Beach, Hatred, Suffering

With growing awareness, you can see where you're caught or where you suffer or where you create suffering. You can then turn toward the difficulties that arise in your life with compassion, bow, and say, these too are part of human incarnation.

Compassion, Suffering, Growing

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.

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?

Buddhism, Suffering, Doe

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

Suffering, Feels, Sufferings In Life

Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.49, Shambhala Publications

Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.

Suffering, Wish, Action

Jack Kornfield (2014). “A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times”, p.61, Sounds True

As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life.

Practice, Old Habits, Suffering

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

Art, Buddhism, Suffering

We can easily become loyal to our suffering … but it's not the end of the path.

Suffering, Loyal, Path

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