Jack Kornfield Quotes

We Were Young And The Focus On Human Suffering Gave Our Retreats Gravitas. But Suffering Is Not The Goal, It Is The Beginning Of The Path. Now In The Retreat I Teach, I Also Encourage Participants To Awaken To Their Innate Joy. From The Very Beginning I Encourage Them To Allow The Moments Of Joy And Well-being To Deepen, To Spread Throughout Their Body And Mind. Many Of Us Are Conditioned To Fear Joy And Happiness, Yet Joy Is Necessary For Awakening. As The Persian Mystic Rumi Instructs Us, 'When You Go To A Garden, Do You Look At Thorns Or Flowers? Spend More Time With Roses And Jasmine.

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