black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Jack Kornfield

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

Flow Life Love Ourselves Wisdom
May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
JACK KORNFIELD

Compassionate Difficult Heart Imagination Myself True
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
Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
JACK KORNFIELD

Belief Limit Stuck
It 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.
JACK KORNFIELD

Appreciate Believe Know
If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
JACK KORNFIELD

Clear Ocean Peace Purity Sky Taste Water
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

Avoid Beginning Change End Freedom Happiness Life Move Peace
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
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 KORNFIELD

Guide Meditation Ourselves Practice Problem Reflection 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
The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
JACK KORNFIELD

Betrayal Hate Person Suffering Yourself
We can always begin again.
JACK KORNFIELD

Beginning One Liner Start
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

Body Commitment Earth
What we seek is what we are.
JACK KORNFIELD

Emotion People Seek
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
JACK KORNFIELD

Forgiveness Life Unbearable
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
JACK KORNFIELD

Choice Forgiveness Heart Regret True

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jack Kornfield Quotes