To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love. With” — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“if a yogi is so well blessed with karma to be one who can tread the pleasant path, one who can gain… — 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 emotional wisdom of the heart is simple. When we accept our human feelings, a remarkable transformation occurs. Tenderness and wisdom arise… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha’s path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“The seeds of wisdom, peace, and wholeness are within each of our difficulties. Our awakening is possible in every activity. At first… — 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
“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
