All Jack Kornfield Quotes
- Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind? Hard
- ...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the… All
- For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality can… Acting
- To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come… Compassion
- In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course I get angry,… Acceptance
- Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying… Amount
- When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us… Been
- It is our commitment to wholeness that matters, the willingness to unfold in every deep aspect of our being. Aspect
- The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to… Aspect
- Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely. Attention
- The questions asked at the end of lie are very simple ones: Did I love well? Did I love the people around me, my community,… Asked
- Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without… Battle
- Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live? Death
- When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive. Aggression
- Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows. Flow
- The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love. Courageous
- We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities. Directly
- Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is the reality of… Change
- To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. Courage
- The words of the Buddha offer this truth: ∼ Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed. Alone
- As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When… Actual
- We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual. Any
- Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment. Commitment
- Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice. Became
- There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart. Choose