“Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.” ― Jack Kornfield
“We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.” ― Jack Kornfield
“Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.” ― Jack Kornfield
“There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall.” ― Jack Kornfield
“As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. Whatever happens does not really matter.” ― Jack Kornfield
“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” ― Jack Kornfield
“To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.” ― Jack Kornfield
“Do not scratch when itched, nor shift when cramped, nor pause when tired.” ― Jack Kornfield
“This life is a test – it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.” ― Jack Kornfield
“One of the essential tasks for living a wise life is letting go. Letting go is the path to freedom. It is only by letting go of the hopes, the fears, the pain, the past, the stories that have a hold on us that we can quiet our mind and open our heart.” ― Jack Kornfield
“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” ― Jack Kornfield
“You must be present to win.” ― Jack Kornfield
“Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.” ― Jack Kornfield
“We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.” ― Jack Kornfield
“The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.” ― Jack Kornfield
“As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.” ― Jack Kornfield
“If you can sit quietly after difficult news, if in financial downturns you remain perfectly calm, if you can see your neighbors travel to fantastic places without a twinge of jealousy, if you can happily eat whatever is put on your plate, and fall asleep after a day of running around without a drink or a pill,… if you can always find contentment just where you are, you are probably a dog.” ― Jack Kornfield
“To bow to the fact of our life’s sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.” ― Jack Kornfield
“We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us.” ― Jack Kornfield
“True emptiness is not empty but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed.” ― Jack Kornfield
“Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?” Jack Kornfield
“Every individual has a unique contribution.” ― Jack Kornfield
“When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that he or she is a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.” ― Jack Kornfield
“The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.” ― Jack Kornfield
“Our life is shaped and determined by our thoughts. Usually we are only half conscious of the way thoughts direct our life; we are lost in thoughts as if they are reality. We take our own mental creations quite seriously, endorsing them without reservation.” ― Jack Kornfield
“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.” ― Jack Kornfield
“Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?”
“The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.” ― Jack Kornfield
“Never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it.” ― Jack Kornfield
“The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.” ― Jack Kornfield
“When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.” ― Jack Kornfield
“The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?”
“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 fighting.” ― Jack Kornfield
“When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.” ― Jack Kornfield
“To meditate is to discover new possibilities; to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully.” ― Jack Kornfield
“Acceptance is not passivity. It is a courageous step in the process of transformation.” ― Jack Kornfield
