You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Strength of the Heart comes from knowing that the pain that we each must bear is part of the greater pain shared… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
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
If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to… — 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
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
There are many good forms of meditation practice. A good meditation practice is any one that develops awareness or mindfulness of our… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own experience. In such a… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited… — 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… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
What brings the karmic result from the patterns of our actions is not our action alone. As we intend and then act,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Grant that I have enough suffering that my heart really opens to the great compassion of this world, that I be given… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We each have been betrayed. Let yourself picture and remember the many ways this is true. Feel the sorrow you have carried… — 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
Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react.… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously… — 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
If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of… — 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
We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed.… — 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 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
![“What brings the karmic result from the patterns of our actions is not our action alone. As we intend and then act, we create [our] karma: so another key to understanding the creation of karma is becoming aware of intention. The heart is our garden, and along with each action there is an intention…” quote by Jack Kornfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d73/jack-kornfield-936_action_what-brings-the-karmic-result-from-the-p_1096567.jpg)
