Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
JACK KORNFIELDUse whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
JACK KORNFIELDTo see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
JACK KORNFIELDWherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
JACK KORNFIELDTo let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
JACK KORNFIELDWe need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
JACK KORNFIELDTo live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
JACK KORNFIELDAnger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
JACK KORNFIELDThe heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
JACK KORNFIELDWhat we seek is what we are.
JACK KORNFIELDTo live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
JACK KORNFIELDIn deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
JACK KORNFIELDMost of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
JACK KORNFIELDThe only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
JACK KORNFIELDThere are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
JACK KORNFIELDWe do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
JACK KORNFIELDWisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
JACK KORNFIELD