To 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 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 KORNFIELDDo not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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 KORNFIELDMeet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
JACK KORNFIELDTo see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
JACK KORNFIELDAnger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
JACK KORNFIELDSince death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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 KORNFIELDTrue love is not for the faint-hearted.
JACK KORNFIELDMay you know the beauty of your own true nature.
JACK KORNFIELDIn 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 KORNFIELDEvery facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
JACK KORNFIELDHave respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
JACK KORNFIELDWisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
JACK KORNFIELDAs 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 KORNFIELDWithin each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
JACK KORNFIELD