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
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
Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not… — 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
Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
If grief or anger arises, Let there be grief or anger. This is the Buddha in all forms,Sun Buddha, Moon Buddha, Happy… — 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
The questions asked at the end of lie are very simple ones: Did I love well? Did I love the people around… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer… — 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
