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
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
Yes, there are troubles in the world. There's war and hatred, there's sickness and difficulty. And there is also an undying spirit,… — 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
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
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
No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Whatever your difficulties - a devastated heart, financial loss, feeling assaulted by the conflicts around you, or a seemingly hopeless illness -… — 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
With growing awareness, you can see where you're caught or where you suffer or where you create suffering. You can then turn… — 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
“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
