Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react.… — 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
Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We need courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart. We… — 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
We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night.… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.”… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and… — 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
Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it… — 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
