Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are. To follow a path with heart, we must understand the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The… — 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
Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet,… — 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
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
In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom.… — 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
Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them. — 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
Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find… — 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
