Great pain, when it is honored from the heart, opens into great understanding. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain. — 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
But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by 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
Strength of the Heart comes from knowing that the pain that we each must bear is part of the greater pain shared… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“most often the kinds of pains we encounter in meditative attention are not indications of physical problems. They are the painful, physical… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We each have been betrayed. Let yourself picture and remember the many ways this is true. Feel the sorrow you have carried… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises… — 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
You are the mystery incarnating itself, and it's beautiful when you remember. It's also painful and awesome and it contains unbearable beauty… — 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
It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer… — 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
Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited… — 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
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
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have… — 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
