"When we let go of our battles and……" — Jack Kornfield
"When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice. Only in this moment can we discover that which is timeless. Only here can we find the love that we seek. Love in the past is simply memory, and love in the future is fantasy. Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world."
—
Jack Kornfield
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
214 Quotes by Jack Kornfield
Jack Kornfield has 214 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
The trouble is that you think you have time.
-
Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than…
-
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
-
It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions.…
-
At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
-
In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to…
-
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant…
-
We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
-
We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple,…
-
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most…
-
Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life,…
-
We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.
See all 214 quotes by Jack Kornfield »
More Awaken Quotes
This quote is filed under Awaken Quotes,
one of 430 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me.…
— David Bowie
-
To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be…
— Robert Byrd
-
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the…
— William Ellery Channing
-
Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs.…
— Sri Chinmoy
-
Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive…
— Dogen
-
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
— Samuel Johnson
-
A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this,…
— Nabeshima Naoshige
-
People would never begin to pray if they could not ask for earthly things like riches and health and honours;…
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
-
... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their…
— Adolfo Perez Esquivel
-
The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training…
— William James
-
In order to succeed in it (prayer), it should be done when we first awaken, when our whole being is…
— Peter Julian Eymard
-
The forests are the flag's of Nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and…
— Enos Mills
See all 430 Awaken Quotes »