Love Quotes by Jack Kornfield

In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.

— Jack Kornfield

The task is not to perfect yourself, it's to perfect your love.

— Jack Kornfield

The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.

— Jack Kornfield

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

— Jack Kornfield

It is the place of feeling that binds us or frees us.

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The quieting of our mind is a political act.

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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.

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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.

— Jack Kornfield

In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love…

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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

— Jack Kornfield

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

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The words of the Buddha offer this truth: ∼ Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed.

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“True love and prayer are learned in the hour when love becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.”

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Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

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“The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love. With”

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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our…

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The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present.…

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Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard,…

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When you rest in presence and pure awareness, sometimes everything is experienced as love because you're connected with all that is, and…

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Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is…

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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts…

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“The four radiant abodes are loving-kindness, compassion, joy and peace.These abodes are treasured because they are exquisitely simple, the universal expression of…

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Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it…

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In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It…

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If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a…

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The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.”…

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“When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in…

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Forgiveness sees wisely. It willingly acknowledges what is unjust, harmful, and wrong. It bravely recognizes sufferings of the past, and understands the…

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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.

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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life

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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.

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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

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Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

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Tending to ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves.

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Whatever we cultivate in times of ease, we gather as strength for times of change.

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When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have…

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When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it…

— Jack Kornfield