The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with Soul… — 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
Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we… — 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
One of the essential tasks for living a wise life is letting go. Letting go is the path to freedom. It is… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it… — 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 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
The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are. — 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
