No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.
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.
More Jack Kornfield Quotes
-
-
Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
JACK KORNFIELD -
The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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 -
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 -
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
JACK KORNFIELD -
We can always begin again.
JACK KORNFIELD -
Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
JACK KORNFIELD -
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
JACK KORNFIELD -
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
JACK KORNFIELD -
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
JACK KORNFIELD -
Let 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 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 -
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
JACK KORNFIELD -
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
JACK KORNFIELD -
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
JACK KORNFIELD