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The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to.

The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to.
– Jack Kornfield

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  2. Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. – GK Chesterton
  3. Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there. – Jack Kornfield
  4. Your mind is an entire world, your heart is an entire cosmos, and your soul is an entire universe. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  5. The entire road trip could be summed up as one giant attempt to keep from crashing the car during fits of rage and fits of hysteria. – Kari Martindale
  6. He is a man who kicks at cats, said Solembum, as if that summed up Tenga’s entire character. – Christopher Paolini
  7. Teaching the myth of creation to the students instead of teaching them the fact of evolution is nothing but an act of ultimate ignorance! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  8. With my sunglasses on, I’m Jack Nicholson. Without them, I’m fat and 60.-Jack Nicholson – Jack Nicholson
  9. As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home. – Jack Kornfield
  10. Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. – Jack Kornfield
  11. 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. – Jack Kornfield
  12. Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration. – Jack Kornfield
  13. The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide. – Jack Kornfield
  14. To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free. – Jack Kornfield
  15. Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim-”arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object. – Jack Kornfield
  16. Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels. – Jack Kornfield
  17. Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation. – Jack Kornfield
  18. In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion. – Jack Kornfield
  19. But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of confusion and pain. – Jack Kornfield
  20. But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of confusion and pain. – Jack Kornfield
  21. If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. – Jack Kornfield
  22. The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is simply to release any images and emotions. – Jack Kornfield
  23. When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves. – Jack Kornfield
  24. I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer to men. – Bjrk
  25. Jewish texts compare the knowable universe to the size of a mustard seed. Similar association between God and man made in Quran, Buddhism. – Sudhir Ahluwalia
  26. Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure. – Abhijit Naskar
  27. More often than you might think, teaching science is inseparable from teaching doubt. – Lawrence M Krauss
  28. Preaching vs Teaching:The difference between preaching and teaching: one makes you feel good, the other makes you grow. – TF Hodge
  29. We spend the first 12 months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching them to sit down and shut up. – Phyllis Diller
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  31. Teaching:One hour’s teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.Saying of the Prophet – Idries Shah
  32. I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching. – Frank McCourt
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  36. The pen is truly mightier than the sword. Unless you’re holding a pen and the other guy’s holding a sword. – Dave Besseling
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  39. Stop to appreciate the moments. Summed up, they are the bricks of our soul. – Gary Rudz
  40. The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private liberty. – AE Samaan

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