We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value? — 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
We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual. — 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
Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it… — 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
It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of… — 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 art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand or fearful clinging to the past on the other. It… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“In this way, our life may appear as a series of mistakes. One could call them “problems” or “challenges,” but in some… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born.… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Eternity is here, always alive in the present moment. Mindfulness invites us to return to now, the present moment, instead of being… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather around us, that they may see their own images, and… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we… — 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
