At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well? — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another. — 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
Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about… — 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
It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced… — 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
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
Forgiveness sees wisely. It willingly acknowledges what is unjust, harmful, and wrong. It bravely recognizes sufferings of the past, and understands the… — 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
