The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything. — 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
All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
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 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
When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born.… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We need courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart. We… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The… — 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
Some other people think that awakened consciousness is really about fullness or presence, being completely present for every moment, but these experiences… — 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
Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual. — 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
Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from 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 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
