black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

Jack Kornfield

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

Belief Compassionate Inspirational Patience Respect Yourself
At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
JACK KORNFIELD

End Life Love Myself Question Simplicity
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
JACK KORNFIELD

Beginning End Peace Yourself
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
JACK KORNFIELD

Learn Surf Wave
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
Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
JACK KORNFIELD

Beyond Capacity Difficult Fear Love Ourselves Reality Trust
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
JACK KORNFIELD

Acceptance Compassionate Growth Understand
To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
JACK KORNFIELD

Avoid Difficult Genuine Heart Mistake Power Spiritual Transformation Wake
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
JACK KORNFIELD

Born Philosophy Spiritual
If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
JACK KORNFIELD

Clear Ocean Peace Purity Sky Taste Water
When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
JACK KORNFIELD

Eyes Healing Judgment
Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
JACK KORNFIELD

Joy Live Peace Remember Trouble World Yourself
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
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
JACK KORNFIELD

Beginning Goal Mindset Ourselves
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
JACK KORNFIELD

Block Go Heart Let
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
JACK KORNFIELD

Insight Life Meditation

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jack Kornfield Quotes