What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Meditation takes discipline, just like learning how to play piano. If you want to learn how to play the piano, it takes… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as… — 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
If you can sit quietly after difficult news; if in financial downturns you remain perfectly calm; if you can see your neighbors… — 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
Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
When I sit with students, I do not just want to help them solve their problems. I want to find a moment… — 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
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
In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.”… — 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
A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments… — 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
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 ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,'… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a… — 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
When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it… — 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
