Jack Kornfield Quotes About Awareness

Quotes about: Awareness

• Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.

  Jack Kornfield

  Compassion, Practice, Perfect

• It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this evanescent river of life wisely? With mindful awareness and love it becomes clear. You can fight against the river of change, or use its wisdom to teach you how to graciously move and create and flow with the full measure of joy and sorrow, gain and loss, praise and blame that make up every human incarnation.

  Jack Kornfield

  Moving, Fighting, Loss

• Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.

  Jack Kornfield

  Philosophy, Healing, Medicine

• To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so with this gift, this capacity of loving awareness, of attention that actually can be present for the whole dance.

  Jack Kornfield

  Joy, Sorrow, Attention

• 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

  Heart, Meditation Practice, Mind

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “Meditation for Beginners: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

• When you rest in presence and pure awareness, sometimes everything is experienced as love because you're connected with all that is, and love is simply the nature of being.

  Jack Kornfield

  Love Is, And Love, Sometimes

• 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.

  Jack Kornfield

  Compassion, Suffering, Growing

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