Spiritual
What if your heart already knows what your mind keeps arguing about?
Most people treat the heart as the emotional, unreliable part of themselves. The mind is supposed to be the smart one. But Kornfield argues this gets it exactly backwards. The heart has its own form of knowing, and it's often more accurate than the mind's endless analysis.
The heart is not sentimental. It is wiser than the mind could ever hope to be.— Jack Kornfield, *The Wise Heart*
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The thinker
Buddhist Teacher & Psychologist
Jack Kornfield is a trained Buddhist monk, clinical psychologist, and one of the key teachers who brought Theravada Buddhist practice to the West. He is the author of The Wise Heart.
Based on Jack Kornfield — The Wise Heart, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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