In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
JACK KORNFIELDIn the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
JACK KORNFIELDIn the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.
JACK KORNFIELDThe willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
JACK KORNFIELDEverything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
JACK KORNFIELDIt is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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 KORNFIELDWhen we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
JACK KORNFIELDLife is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
JACK KORNFIELDThe awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
JACK KORNFIELDLife without forgiveness is unbearable.
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 KORNFIELDNo matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
JACK KORNFIELDWe have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
JACK KORNFIELDThe waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
JACK KORNFIELDWhat is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
JACK KORNFIELDThe things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
JACK KORNFIELD