Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
JACK KORNFIELDTrue love is not for the faint-hearted.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
-
-
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
JACK KORNFIELD -
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 -
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
JACK KORNFIELD -
As 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 KORNFIELD -
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
JACK KORNFIELD -
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
JACK KORNFIELD -
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
JACK KORNFIELD -
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
JACK KORNFIELD -
At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
JACK KORNFIELD -
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
JACK KORNFIELD -
The quieting of our mind is a political act.
JACK KORNFIELD -
The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
JACK KORNFIELD -
When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
JACK KORNFIELD -
Everything 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 KORNFIELD -
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
JACK KORNFIELD