Jack Kornfield Quotes About Energy

Quotes about: Energy

• I used to think that to become free you had to practice like a samurai warrior, but now I understand that you have to practice like a devoted mother of a newborn child. It takes the same energy but has a completely different quality. It's compassion and presence rather than having to defeat the enemy in battle.

  Jack Kornfield

  Mother, Children, Warrior

• We need courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart. We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy-mate rial or spiritual. We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

  Jack Kornfield

  Running, Spiritual, Pain

• 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 need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

  Jack Kornfield

  Running, Spiritual, Philosophy

• Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Commitment, Dedication

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.8, Random House

• A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.

  Jack Kornfield

  Exercise, Practice, Support

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.81, Shambhala Publications

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