Quote

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

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
Life
Anger
Like
Consider
Toward
Suffering
Someone
Feel
Feels
Much
Faced

More quotes by Jack Kornfield

Image
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
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 the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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
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
Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
Jack Kornfield
Image
In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
Jack Kornfield
Image
When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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
What we seek is what we are.
Jack Kornfield
Image
The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.
Jack Kornfield
Image
The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to those aspects and dimensions of the self that the client may be unable to touch on his or her own.
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
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
Jack Kornfield
Image
Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart
Jack Kornfield
Image
Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
Jack Kornfield
Image
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
Jack Kornfield
Image
There are many good forms of meditation practice. A good meditation practice is any one that develops awareness or mindfulness of our body and our sense, of our mind and heart.
Jack Kornfield