We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
JACK KORNFIELDWe do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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 KORNFIELDEvery individual in the world has a unique contribution.
JACK KORNFIELDThe willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
JACK KORNFIELDTo 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 KORNFIELDKnowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
JACK KORNFIELDAttention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
JACK KORNFIELDAs we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
JACK KORNFIELDLet go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
JACK KORNFIELDIf your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
JACK KORNFIELDHave respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
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 KORNFIELDTo live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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 only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
JACK KORNFIELD