“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
In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Yes, there are troubles in the world. There's war and hatred, there's sickness and difficulty. And there is also an undying spirit,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Tending to ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The Sufis have a saying: "Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post." This brings together both parts of practice: pray,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Grant that I have enough suffering that my heart really opens to the great compassion of this world, that I be given… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and… — 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
In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom.… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Whatever you believe cosmologically, we all know the tears of the world. We each carry a certain measure of those tears in… — 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
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
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
In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
How did we get into this funny-looking body that has a hole at one end in which we regularly stuff dead plants… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced… — 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
