The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“True love and prayer are learned in the hour when love becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.” — 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
Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love. With” — 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
The words of the Buddha offer this truth: ∼ Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“The four radiant abodes are loving-kindness, compassion, joy and peace.These abodes are treasured because they are exquisitely simple, the universal expression of… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
When you rest in presence and pure awareness, sometimes everything is experienced as love because you're connected with all that is, and… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.”… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Forgiveness sees wisely. It willingly acknowledges what is unjust, harmful, and wrong. It bravely recognizes sufferings of the past, and understands the… — 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… — 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
Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows. — 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
Tending to ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life. — 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
The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present.… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard,… — 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
