Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
JACK KORNFIELDEvery individual in the world has a unique contribution.
JACK KORNFIELDNo amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
JACK KORNFIELDTo begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
JACK KORNFIELDThe goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
JACK KORNFIELDUse whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
JACK KORNFIELDPeace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
JACK KORNFIELDMost people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
JACK KORNFIELDThe only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
JACK KORNFIELDIt 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 KORNFIELDThe heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
JACK KORNFIELDIndifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
JACK KORNFIELDWhen we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
JACK KORNFIELDWe do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
JACK KORNFIELDTrue love is not for the faint-hearted.
JACK KORNFIELDWithin each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
JACK KORNFIELDEquanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
JACK KORNFIELD