Jack Kornfield Quotes About Simplicity

Quotes about: Simplicity

• Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

  Jack Kornfield

  Simple, Simplicity, Students

• Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open.

  Jack Kornfield

  Buddhist, Lying, Heart

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.24, Random House

• When we let go of yearning for the future, preoccupation with the past, and strategies to protect the present, there is nowhere left to go but where we are. To connect with the present moment is to begin to appreciate the beauty of true simplicity.

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Past, Appreciate

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