black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

Jack Kornfield

Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
JACK KORNFIELD

Compassionate Fear Forgiveness Friendship Hate Power Regret Respect Rise Transformation
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
Spiritual 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 KORNFIELD

Born Goodness Life Person Reminder Spiritual Yourself
The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
JACK KORNFIELD

Courage Empty Greatness Love Nature Ourselves Seek True Willing
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
JACK KORNFIELD

Learn Surf Wave
Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
JACK KORNFIELD

Moment Moments
…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
JACK KORNFIELD

Heart Kindness Spiritual
The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
JACK KORNFIELD

Heart Know Mind
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

Discover Heart Learning Love Ourselves
Everything 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 KORNFIELD

Avoid Beginning Change End Freedom Happiness Life Move Peace
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
JACK KORNFIELD

Acceptance Live Miracle Repeat Time Way
You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
JACK KORNFIELD

Hands Heart Hold On Invitation Peace Possible Remember
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
JACK KORNFIELD

Insight Life Meditation
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
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
JACK KORNFIELD

Heal Medicine Philosophy
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
JACK KORNFIELD

Belief Compassionate Inspirational Patience Respect Yourself

No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jack Kornfield Quotes