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
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
We need courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart. We… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the… — 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
Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Great pain, when it is honored from the heart, opens into great understanding. — 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
It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night.… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Whatever you believe cosmologically, we all know the tears of the world. We each carry a certain measure of those tears in… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path… — 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
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
The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
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
The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing. — 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
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
“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
