“Meditation is not a process of getting rid of something, but one of opening and understanding. When” — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Great pain, when it is honored from the heart, opens into great understanding. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding. — 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
The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
What brings the karmic result from the patterns of our actions is not our action alone. As we intend and then act,… — 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
The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,'… — 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… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Some other people think that awakened consciousness is really about fullness or presence, being completely present for every moment, but these experiences… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Within the mystery of life there is the infinite darkness of the night sky lit by distant orbs of fire, the cobbled… — 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
“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
![“What brings the karmic result from the patterns of our actions is not our action alone. As we intend and then act, we create [our] karma: so another key to understanding the creation of karma is becoming aware of intention. The heart is our garden, and along with each action there is an intention…” quote by Jack Kornfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d73/jack-kornfield-936_action_what-brings-the-karmic-result-from-the-p_1096567.jpg)
