Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
JACK KORNFIELDWithout integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
JACK KORNFIELDWe have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
JACK KORNFIELDSpiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
JACK KORNFIELDLove is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
JACK KORNFIELDLife without forgiveness is unbearable.
JACK KORNFIELDThe only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
JACK KORNFIELDA second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
JACK KORNFIELDAt the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
JACK KORNFIELDLetting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
JACK KORNFIELDAnger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
JACK KORNFIELDNobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
JACK KORNFIELDUse whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
JACK KORNFIELDEven Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
JACK KORNFIELDTo see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.
JACK KORNFIELDMeet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
JACK KORNFIELDWe do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
JACK KORNFIELD