The Sufis have a saying: "Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post." This brings together both parts of practice: pray, yes, but also make sure that you do what is necessary in the world.
What we seek is what we are. - Jack Kornfield
What we seek is what we are.
- Jack Kornfield
Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we resist and fear sec… - Jack Kornfield
Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we resist and fear sec…
To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own. - Jack Kornfield
To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go - Jack Kornfield
In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart. - Jack Kornfield
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism an… - Jack Kornfield
No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism an…
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf. - Jack Kornfield
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there? - Jack Kornfield
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. - Jack Kornfield
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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