In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
JACK KORNFIELDIn the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
JACK KORNFIELDTrue love is not for the faint-hearted.
JACK KORNFIELDEverything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
JACK KORNFIELDHave respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
JACK KORNFIELDEven Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
JACK KORNFIELDThe basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
JACK KORNFIELDLet 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 KORNFIELDWisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
JACK KORNFIELDWithin each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
JACK KORNFIELDYou need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
JACK KORNFIELDThe goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
JACK KORNFIELDLive in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
JACK KORNFIELDAt the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
JACK KORNFIELDThe awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
JACK KORNFIELDEvery individual in the world has a unique contribution.
JACK KORNFIELDWe can always begin again.
JACK KORNFIELD