There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops.

Jack Kornfield
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  2. You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master. - Miguel Ruiz

  3. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. - Aristotle

  4. No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear. - Greg Kincaid

  5. A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy. - Amit Kalantri

More Quotes By Jack Kornfield
  1. In the endthese things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?

  2. 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

  3. Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

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

  5. There is no higher happiness than peace.

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