“most often the kinds of pains we encounter in meditative attention are not indications of physical problems. They are the painful, physical manifestations of our emotional, psychological, and spiritual holdings and contractions.” — 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
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
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
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
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
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share
To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share
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
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
“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
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share
To let go in the deepest recesses of the heart, to release all struggle and wanting, leads us to that knowing which is timeless. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share
Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share
Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share
