black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?

Jack Kornfield

What 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 KORNFIELD

Alive Conversation Music Ourselves Path Spiritual True
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
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
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
JACK KORNFIELD

Defend Difference Guide Ourselves
Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
JACK KORNFIELD

Consistency Fun Mindset Training Way Yourself
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
JACK KORNFIELD

Block Go Heart Let
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
JACK KORNFIELD

Individual Unique World
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
JACK KORNFIELD

Beginning Difficult Past Yourself
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 KORNFIELD

Acceptance Compassionate Let Go Wisdom
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
JACK KORNFIELD

Beginning End Peace Yourself
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
JACK KORNFIELD

Hearted Love True
Every 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 KORNFIELD

Assumption Beginning Department Mindset Responsibility Right Yourself
We can always begin again.
JACK KORNFIELD

Beginning One Liner Start
The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
JACK KORNFIELD

Discipline Spiritual War
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
JACK KORNFIELD

Errors Forgiveness Life Live Ourselves Success Understand
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
JACK KORNFIELD

Insight Life Meditation

The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jack Kornfield Quotes