Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard,… — 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
In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom.… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against… — 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
As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover… — 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
