Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
JACK KORNFIELDPart of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
JACK KORNFIELDNobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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 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 KORNFIELDWe 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 KORNFIELDUse whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
JACK KORNFIELDLife without forgiveness is unbearable.
JACK KORNFIELDEverything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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 KORNFIELDThere are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
JACK KORNFIELDThe waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
JACK KORNFIELDTrue love is not for the faint-hearted.
JACK KORNFIELDTo live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
JACK KORNFIELDWeigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
JACK KORNFIELDA second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
JACK KORNFIELDWe 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