No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today, — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Whatever your difficulties - a devastated heart, financial loss, feeling assaulted by the conflicts around you, or a seemingly hopeless illness -… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Eternity is here, always alive in the present moment. Mindfulness invites us to return to now, the present moment, instead of being… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Be mindful of intention. Intention is the seed that creates our future. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Whatever we cultivate in times of ease, we gather as strength for times of change. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a… — 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
There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment? — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one. — 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