The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to… — 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 in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“If you expect your life to be up and down, your mind will be much more peaceful.” — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises… — 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
“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
You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react.… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are. To follow a path with heart, we must understand the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Genuine spiritual practice requires us to learn how to stop the war. This is a first step, but actually it must be… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“The seeds of wisdom, peace, and wholeness are within each of our difficulties. Our awakening is possible in every activity. At first… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed.… — 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
