[Thespiritexpress] Community from Jack Kornfield

[Riantee Rand]

I could walk through the fire with all of you when we are together!

> On Mar 25, 2026, at 14:30, Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> And to add……...This was entitled “Walking Through the Fire Together"
> 
>> On Mar 25, 2026, at 1:40 PM, Roz via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
>> 
>> So true , meaningful and perfect !
>> Thank you, Toni
>> 🩷🙏🏼Roz
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>>> On Mar 25, 2026, at 1:37 PM, Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> When I lived in Woodacre I attended Spirit Rock meditation center frequently to meditate and listen to Jack share his amazing stories, guidance and beautiful wisdom.
>>> On occasion, I would run into him at the post office, and he would greet me like a friend…….such a blessing…….
>>> 
>>> I thought this was particularly synchronistic, arriving in my in-box today since our discussion at “Sutras” on Tuesday included an unpacking of what is pain?  What is growth?
>>> Does the caterpillar suffer in its process to became a butterfly?  And how do we hold the “suffering” together as we grow and transform?
>>> 
>>> With love and gratitude for our sweet community, 
>>> T
>>> 
>>>> Dear friends, 
>>>> 
>>>> A teacher once said, “If you think you can wake up without breaking open, you’re mistaken.”
>>>>  
>>>> Growth is not polite. 
>>>> Truth is not always gentle. 
>>>> And transformation often hurts.
>>>>  
>>>> But it hurts like birth hurts. 
>>>> Like muscles growing hurt. 
>>>> Like a heart opening wider than it ever has before.
>>>>  
>>>> We don’t heal alone.
>>>>  
>>>> Even when we think we must.
>>>>  
>>>> Almost every great turning in your life involved another human being—someone who listened, someone who stayed, someone who did not turn away when you were afraid.
>>>>  
>>>> We are not meant to carry everything by ourselves. 
>>>> We are meant to carry one another.
>>>>  
>>>> It doesn’t mean we fix each other. 
>>>> It means we refuse to abandon one another.
>>>>  
>>>> When you walk through grief and someone sits beside you, you are changed. 
>>>> When you face uncertainty and someone lights a candle, you are changed.
>>>>  
>>>> This is what community means: 
>>>> Not agreement. 
>>>> Not sameness. 
>>>> But shared courage.
>>>>  
>>>> We are not as strong alone as we are together.
>>>>  
>>>> That is not sentimental. 
>>>> That is survival. 
>>>> That is love. 
>>>> 
>>>> With metta, 
>>>> Jack
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>> 
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