There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Forgiveness does not mean that we have to continue to relate to those who have done us harm. In some cases the… — 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
The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is… — 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
Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way. — 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 not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.”… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free… — 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
