Quote

True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed.

Jack Kornfield

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
Author
Psychologist
Writer
the United States of America
Empty
Possibilities
Reflects
Possibility
Developed
Arises
True
Creates
Contains
Things
Discovered
Pregnant
Never
Arise
Void
Fixed
Emptiness
Mysterious
Possessed
Although
Individuality

More quotes by Jack Kornfield

Image
It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
Jack Kornfield
Image
According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the quivering of the pure heart when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life.
Jack Kornfield
Image
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
Image
All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.
Jack Kornfield
Image
To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
Jack Kornfield
Image
...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
Jack Kornfield
Image
We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from an honorable and open heart accepting what is true. Do we want to remain stuck? Or to release the fearful sense of self and rest kindly where we are?
Jack Kornfield
Image
When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.
Jack Kornfield
Image
What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?
Jack Kornfield
Image
When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.
Jack Kornfield
Image
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
Image
As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
Jack Kornfield
Image
At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
Jack Kornfield
Image
Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
Jack Kornfield
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.
Jack Kornfield
Image
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
Jack Kornfield
Image
The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.
Jack Kornfield