black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?

Jack Kornfield

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
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
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
JACK KORNFIELD

Acceptance Rise Way
To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
JACK KORNFIELD

Born Death Let Go Live Moments Oneself
Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
JACK KORNFIELD

Flow Life Love Ourselves Wisdom
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
JACK KORNFIELD

Acceptance Live Miracle Repeat Time Way
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
JACK KORNFIELD

End Forgiveness Heart Ourselves Person Simplicity
The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
JACK KORNFIELD

Basic Life Love Ourselves Place Principle Problem Spiritual Wisdom
We can always begin again.
JACK KORNFIELD

Beginning One Liner Start
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
JACK KORNFIELD

Compassionate Fear Garden Growth Heart Love Plant Regret Yourself
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
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 has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
JACK KORNFIELD

Avoid Beginning Change End Freedom Happiness Life Move Peace
Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
JACK KORNFIELD

Fear Life Peace Transcendence True Trust Yourself
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 KORNFIELD

Awake Different Emotional Maturity Person Recognition Spiritual Yourself
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

End Learning Let Go Live
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
JACK KORNFIELD

Forgiveness Life Unbearable
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
JACK KORNFIELD

Block Go Heart Let
…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
JACK KORNFIELD

Heart Kindness Spiritual
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
JACK KORNFIELD

Learn Surf Wave
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
JACK KORNFIELD

Awake Love Patience Understand
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
Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
JACK KORNFIELD

Born Goodness Life Person Reminder Spiritual Yourself
It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
JACK KORNFIELD

Appreciate Believe Know
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
JACK KORNFIELD

Hard Time Learning Struggle Wave
Do 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 KORNFIELD

Basic Beautiful Born Doubt Goodness Love Yourself
Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
JACK KORNFIELD

Belief Limit Stuck

Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jack Kornfield Quotes