The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
JACK KORNFIELDThe heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
JACK KORNFIELDWhen we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
JACK KORNFIELDThe basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
JACK KORNFIELDIt does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
JACK KORNFIELDWhen we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
JACK KORNFIELDHave respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
JACK KORNFIELDKnowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
JACK KORNFIELDWeigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
JACK KORNFIELDMuch of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
JACK KORNFIELDWhen 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 KORNFIELDWhat 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 KORNFIELDSpiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
JACK KORNFIELDTrain your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
JACK KORNFIELDMay I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
JACK KORNFIELDThe things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
JACK KORNFIELDWhat we seek is what we are.
JACK KORNFIELD