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
Fixed
Emptiness
Mysterious
Possessed
Although
Individuality
Empty
Possibilities
Reflects
Possibility
Developed
Arises
True
Creates
Contains
Things
Discovered
Pregnant
Never
Arise
Void

More quotes by Jack Kornfield

Image
Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions create problems. Considered responses bring peace. With a peaceful heart whatever happens can be met with wisdom...Peace is not weak it is unshakable.
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 live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your heart.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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
Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.
Jack Kornfield
Image
When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
Jack Kornfield
Image
The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
Jack Kornfield
Image
As we step out of the way new things are born.
Jack Kornfield
Image
A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.
Jack Kornfield
Image
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
Jack Kornfield
Image
When we let go of yearning for the future, preoccupation with the past, and strategies to protect the present, there is nowhere left to go but where we are. To connect with the present moment is to begin to appreciate the beauty of true simplicity.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
Jack Kornfield
Image
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
Image
You are the mystery incarnating itself, and it's beautiful when you remember. It's also painful and awesome and it contains unbearable beauty and unfathomable pain - the ocean of tears and galaxy of bliss. I don't say that lightly, but it's what we have.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
Jack Kornfield
Image
We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
Jack Kornfield