black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

Jack Kornfield

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

Battle Body Breathe Experience Fight Heart Let Go Quiet Yourself
When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
JACK KORNFIELD

Battle End Heart Let Go Open Practice Present Spiritual
We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
JACK KORNFIELD

Heart Pain Warrior
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
JACK KORNFIELD

Errors Forgiveness Life Live Ourselves Success Understand
A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
JACK KORNFIELD

Acceptance Fundamental Kindness Maturity Quality Spiritual
The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
JACK KORNFIELD

Heart Know Mind
We can always begin again.
JACK KORNFIELD

Beginning One Liner Start
We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
JACK KORNFIELD

Day Forever Moments Night Open
What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
JACK KORNFIELD

Alive Conversation Music Ourselves Path Spiritual True
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
JACK KORNFIELD

Conscience Integrity Loss
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
JACK KORNFIELD

Buddhist First Therapists
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
JACK KORNFIELD

Attention Body Healing Human Remember
Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
JACK KORNFIELD

Flow Life Love Ourselves Wisdom
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
JACK KORNFIELD

Compassionate Incomplete Yourself
Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
JACK KORNFIELD

Long Silence Spiritual
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
JACK KORNFIELD

Insight Life Meditation

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jack Kornfield Quotes