To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.
Jack KornfieldGreat spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a new way by developing a stillness of mind and a strength of heart.
Jack KornfieldEmbodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.
Jack KornfieldWhen we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.
Jack Kornfield