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Jack Kornfield Quotes

Total quotes: 35
“Put your trust in compassion and self-love. Compassion for our own fear & shame opens us to others.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Self love, Compassion, Fear, Trust
“Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.”
— Jack Kornfield, A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times
Tagged: Respect, Self-appreciation, Compassion, Patience
“Forgiveness releases us from the power of fear. It allows us to see with kindly eyes and rest in a wise heart.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: forgiveness, Wise Heart, Calm Mind
“Sitting mindfully with our sorrows and fears, or with those of another, is an act of courage. It is not easy.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Sorrow, fears, mindfulness
“How can we mindfully navigate this life? Can we foster a sense of interconnection with all life on this earth?”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: mindfulness, Connection, Life On Earth, Energy
“Ethnic & religious identifications are repeatedly exploited for power & security, for separating "us" from "them."”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Ethnicity, Religion
“When powerful feelings arise, our task is first to let them move through us, then to allow them to sing their songs.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Feelings
“When we awaken the Buddha within, we awaken a force that can bring compassion to the whole of the world.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Buddhism, Buddhist Teachings, Awakening, Transformation, Spirituality
“Even when we give in to despair some secret part of us knows that there must be another way.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Despair, Giving Up, Finding A Way Out
“When we consider loving well and living fully, we can see the ways our attachments and fears have limited us.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Love, Living well, Living Fully, Attachments, fears
“Usually we're only half conscious of the way thoughts direct our life; we're lost in thoughts as if they're reality.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Thoughts, Life, Reality
“The 1st arrow is the painful experience. The 2nd arrow is the one we shoot into ourselves. This arrow is optional.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Pain, Suffering
“Many of the great sorrows of the world arise when the mind is disconnected from the heart.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Sorrow, heart, Mind And Heart
“It is never too late for the illumination of wisdom. It does not matter how long the darkness has lasted.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Wisdom, Illumination Of Wisdom, Darkness Wont Last
“We can be complacent and let our lives disappear in a dream, or we can become aware.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Complacency, Awareness, Becoming, Dream
“We can plan, we can care for, tend and respond. But we cannot control. This is a fierce teaching.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: You Are Not In Control
“What we practice becomes habit. Societies can repeat destructive collective habits of racism, hatred, and revenge.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Practice Becomes Habit, habits, racism, Hatred, Revenge
“In 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 Kornfield, A quote by Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Letters, Living life, Loving
“The mind will not become quiet upon command. Instead, what most people experience is the inner waterfall, a cascading stream of thoughts.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Thoughts, Mindfullness
“To live in this world wisely, we need to release unhealthy desire and learn to hold healthy desire lightly.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: desires, Unhealthy Desires
“When we act from the wisdom of no separation, understanding how we're woven together, our intentions bring benefits.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Understanding Yourself, Understanding Others
“For the mind to become settled in the present moment, in the midst of so much change, we must develop concentration.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Awakening, Concentration, mindfulness
“To heal in difficult times bring a tender, healing energy to all that is sick or torn, what is broken or lost.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Healing, Healing Energy, Suffering, Pain, lost
“The unfolding of the human heart is artful and mysterious. Freedom is in the journey itself.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Human Heart, Freedom, Journey, Becoming
“In our hardships, we discover the courage not to succumb, not to retreat, but not to strike out in fear and anger.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Hard Times, Courage, Fear, Anger
“When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.”
— Jack Kornfield, The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace
Tagged: Letting Go, Letting Things Be, Moving On
“To look at the world honestly, unflinchingly, and directly requires us to also look at ourselves.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Self Realization, self reflection
“"Free" is not free from feelings, but free to feel each one and let it move on, unafraid of the movement of life.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Life, Movement Of Life
“With virtue and forgiveness we repair the world.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Saving The World, forgiveness, Virtue
“What we practice becomes habit.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Habit, practice
“Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying the same, we realize that relaxing and letting go is a wiser way to live. Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.”
— Jack Kornfield, The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace
Tagged: Letting Go, Letting Things Be, Moving On
“Happiness and love come naturally in letting go of fear.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Happiness, Love, Letting Go Of The Nonessentials
“Service is the expression of the awakened heart.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Service, heart, Awakening
“Your thoughts make a good servant but not a good master.”
— Jack Kornfield
Tagged: Thoughts, Thought Control
“Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we resist and fear secretly follows us even as we push it away. To let go of fear or trauma, we need to acknowledge just how it is. We need to feel it fully and accept that it is so. It is as it is. Letting go begins with letting be.”
— Jack Kornfield, The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace
Tagged: Letting Go, Letting Things Be, Moving On
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