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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
– Jack Kornfield

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  1. Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration. – Jack Kornfield
  2. The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide. – Jack Kornfield
  3. 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
  4. Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels. – Jack Kornfield
  5. Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there. – Jack Kornfield
  6. Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation. – Jack Kornfield
  7. In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion. – Jack Kornfield
  8. When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves. – Jack Kornfield
  9. A truly free man is not free ‘from’ anything, nor free ‘to’ anything, he is just free. Free within himself. – Ilyas Kassam
  10. Dialogue with the self is the source of all insight and insight is the only thing that can change your life. – Oli Anderson
  11. Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored. – Brian Greene
  12. One with more insight (sooj) is considered wise. To have more insight [sooj] is a natural gift. One may have more sooj but may have no intellect. – Dada Bhagwan
  13. Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem… – Max McKeown
  14. With my sunglasses on, I’m Jack Nicholson. Without them, I’m fat and 60.-Jack Nicholson – Jack Nicholson
  15. As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home. – Jack Kornfield
  16. Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. – Jack Kornfield
  17. 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
  18. 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
  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. If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. – Jack Kornfield
  21. The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is simply to release any images and emotions. – Jack Kornfield
  22. The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to. – Jack Kornfield
  23. We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free. – Allan Dare Pearce
  24. Meditation is doing what you are doing – whether you are doing formal meditation or child care. – Norman Fischer
  25. Render unto meditation the things that are meditation’s, and unto medication the things that are medication’s. – Barry Graham
  26. The study of modern mindfulness meditation and emotional intelligence is deeply rooted in the ancient Vipassana meditation techniques. – Amit Ray
  27. Unless you understand the difference between insight and revelation, you will be far from transformation. – Christian Michael
  28. Forgiveness for ourselves and other is one of the main elements in growth. It allows us to free ourselves of the issues that are holding us down. – Nanette Mathews
  29. We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom. – Sharon Salzberg
  30. I am free.I am free.I am free. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  31. I prefer to rule and work in Nigeria in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free in the name of my country. – Saminu Kanti
  32. I am free to dream.I am free to love.I am free to write. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  33. He was free-free to choose to swing from a tree for the afternoon rather than mend fences or train horses. He was free to live. – Elizabeth Michels
  34. For the sincere student, it mustn’t be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves. – Chris Matakas
  35. Jack, be nimble, Jack, be quickJill’s a little whore and her alibis are dirty tricks – Set it off
  36. You want to come back to the bank vault?- Jack says.The bank vault. That’s what Jack calls his house. – Allen Zadoff
  37. Two people who know they do not understand each other, breeding children whom they do not understand and who will never understand them. – TS Eliot
  38. No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. – Anton Chekhov
  39. The more you learn about other people, the more you understand yourself; and the more you understand yourself, the more you understand other people. – Father Brown
  40. I can’t understand God and I can’t understand myself, so there’s no chance in hell that I’m going to understand you! – Anthony T Hincks

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