The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
JACK KORNFIELDAt the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
-
-
To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
JACK KORNFIELD -
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
JACK KORNFIELD -
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
JACK KORNFIELD -
May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
JACK KORNFIELD -
In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
JACK KORNFIELD -
The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
JACK KORNFIELD -
The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
JACK KORNFIELD -
At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
JACK KORNFIELD -
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
JACK KORNFIELD -
Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
JACK KORNFIELD -
A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
JACK KORNFIELD -
The quieting of our mind is a political act.
JACK KORNFIELD -
Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
JACK KORNFIELD -
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
JACK KORNFIELD -
As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
JACK KORNFIELD






