black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

Jack Kornfield

We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
JACK KORNFIELD

Awake Courage Doubt Face Need Ourselves Perseverance Right Sorrow
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
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
JACK KORNFIELD

Acceptance Rise Way
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
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
JACK KORNFIELD

Born Philosophy Spiritual
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
JACK KORNFIELD

Hearted Love True
Even 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 KORNFIELD

Happiness Life Live Myself Simplicity Student
May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
JACK KORNFIELD

Compassionate Difficult Heart Imagination Myself True
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
JACK KORNFIELD

Acceptance Live Miracle Repeat Time Way
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
Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
JACK KORNFIELD

Care Let Go Way Wisdom
To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
JACK KORNFIELD

Interest Kindness Look
The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
JACK KORNFIELD

Fantastic Intimate Live Moments Oneself Togetherness Touch
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
JACK KORNFIELD

Bear Forgiveness Life
A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
JACK KORNFIELD

Acceptance Fundamental Kindness Maturity Quality Spiritual
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
JACK KORNFIELD

Buddhist First Therapists

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jack Kornfield Quotes