In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how… — 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
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Buddhist teachings put it this way: “Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so do all… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet,… — 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
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value? — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Before his death the Buddha asked his disciples to follow the Dharma, not any teacher or tradition. He put no one over… — 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
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
Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We can step out of our small sense of self and awaken to this reality. One of the reasons people get confused… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
