There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
JACK KORNFIELDThere are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
JACK KORNFIELDPeace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
JACK KORNFIELDDo 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 KORNFIELDThe quieting of our mind is a political act.
JACK KORNFIELDThe 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 KORNFIELDAnger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
JACK KORNFIELDTo live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
JACK KORNFIELDThe grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
JACK KORNFIELDThe goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
JACK KORNFIELDThe willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
JACK KORNFIELDTo 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 KORNFIELDTo begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
JACK KORNFIELDWe need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
JACK KORNFIELDThe waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
JACK KORNFIELDA second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
JACK KORNFIELDIn the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
JACK KORNFIELD