Quote

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

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
Love
Courageous
Willingness
Seek
Empty
Expression
True
Nature
Great

More quotes by Jack Kornfield

Image
Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
Jack Kornfield
Image
When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Every individual has a unique contribution.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.
Jack Kornfield
Image
You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.
Jack Kornfield
Image
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
Jack Kornfield
Image
The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
Jack Kornfield
Image
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.
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
We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
Jack Kornfield
Image
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?
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
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
To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.
Jack Kornfield
Image
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
Image
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously in your heart.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibilities, and inwardly, it means having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding.
Jack Kornfield
Image
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
Jack Kornfield