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Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life Quotes: Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.
         

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.


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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.



When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.

When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.



No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.



To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.



The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.



In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.

In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.



In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.



The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.





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