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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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More quotes by Jack Kornfield
Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.
Jack Kornfield
At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
Jack Kornfield
For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.
Jack Kornfield
Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.
Jack Kornfield
Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
Jack Kornfield
Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.
Jack Kornfield
Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation fed by a subtle fear of the heart. We pull back, believing that what happens to others is not our concern. Our courage leaves us. Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
Jack Kornfield
It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as if it were a good friend. In modern life we have become so busy with our daily affairs and thoughts that we have lost this essential art of taking time to converse with our heart.
Jack Kornfield
Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.
Jack Kornfield
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
Jack Kornfield
Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
Jack Kornfield
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
Jack Kornfield
Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.
Jack Kornfield
Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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
In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.
Jack Kornfield
In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It is never too late. Yet to sustain love we need to develop practices that cultivate and strengthen the natural compassion within us.
Jack Kornfield
The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice the insistence that we find out the truth for ourselves, accepting no one's word above our own experience.
Jack Kornfield
With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.
Jack Kornfield
Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.
Jack Kornfield