Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there? — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
It is our commitment to wholeness that matters, the willingness to unfold in every deep aspect of our being. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Tending to ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well? — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Whatever we cultivate in times of ease, we gather as strength for times of change. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today, — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share
In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share
Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share
Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share
To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share
To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share
For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share
What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share
“Working with these distractions, steadying the canoe, letting the waves pass by, and coming back again and again in a quiet and collected way,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share
To let go in the deepest recesses of the heart, to release all struggle and wanting, leads us to that knowing which is timeless. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share
Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share
Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share
