black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.

Jack Kornfield

As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, ‘This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,’ then you can go beyond.
JACK KORNFIELD

Inspirational Long Mind
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
JACK KORNFIELD

Beginning Goal Mindset Ourselves
We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
JACK KORNFIELD

Awake Courage Doubt Face Need Ourselves Perseverance Right Sorrow
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

Hands Heart Hold On Invitation Peace Possible Remember
Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
JACK KORNFIELD

Death Fear Freedom Life Live Old Ourselves Way
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

Compassionate Fear Forgiveness Friendship Hate Power Regret Respect Rise Transformation
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
JACK KORNFIELD

Buddhist First Therapists
When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
JACK KORNFIELD

Busy Connection Lose Ourselves World
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
JACK KORNFIELD

Conscience Integrity Loss
We can always begin again.
JACK KORNFIELD

Beginning One Liner Start
Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
JACK KORNFIELD

Flow Life Love Ourselves Wisdom
To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
JACK KORNFIELD

Interest Kindness Look
Ours 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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Condition Difficult Hide Insecurity Lose Nature Ourselves Protection Society
The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
JACK KORNFIELD

Courage Empty Greatness Love Nature Ourselves Seek True Willing
We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
JACK KORNFIELD

Heart Pain Warrior
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

Beautiful Confusion Heart

Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jack Kornfield Quotes