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
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
We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
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
When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us—which in most cases is… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free. — 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
