What we seek is what we are.
JACK KORNFIELDOurs is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
-
-
Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
JACK KORNFIELD -
The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
JACK KORNFIELD -
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 -
When 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 KORNFIELD -
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 -
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
JACK KORNFIELD -
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
JACK KORNFIELD -
Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
JACK KORNFIELD -
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
JACK KORNFIELD -
Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
JACK KORNFIELD -
When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.
JACK KORNFIELD -
Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
JACK KORNFIELD -
Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
JACK KORNFIELD -
When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
JACK KORNFIELD -
…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