The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things. — 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
The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love. — 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
The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
When you rest in presence and pure awareness, sometimes everything is experienced as love because you're connected with all that is, and… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The questions asked at the end of lie are very simple ones: Did I love well? Did I love the people around… — 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… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very… — 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
