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Ep. 141 – How and Why We Become Enlightened

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

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The Quality of Love Ennobles Us

When we allow ourselves to touch what oscar wilde calls the tainted glory of this world, with love, it ennobles us. We're finding our way in to live from the consciousness that's connected and trusted. When that love meets pain, it turns to compassion. As the sufis say, overcome any bitter ess because you were not up to the magnitude of pain that was entrusted to you. Each of us is endowed with a certain measure of cosmic pain. You ware sharing in that pain and called upon to meet it in compassion instead of self pity.

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