Quote

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

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
Perfect
Earth
Love
World
Blame
Seek
Judgment

More quotes by Jack Kornfield

Image
To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.
Jack Kornfield
Image
An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.
Jack Kornfield
Image
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
Jack Kornfield
Image
There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
Jack Kornfield
Image
It is the place of feeling that binds us or frees us.
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
Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.
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
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
There is no higher happiness than peace.
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
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
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
We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
Jack Kornfield
Image
The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
Jack Kornfield
Image
In this world there are two great sources of strength. One rests with those who are not afraid to kill. The other rests with those who are not afraid to love.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is the reality of liberation that we can experience, sometimes in a moment and sometimes in transformative ways that change our entire life
Jack Kornfield
Image
It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
Jack Kornfield