Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
Jack Kornfield
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
Author
Psychologist
Writer
the United States of America
Levels
Quality
Practice
Firsts
Illuminated
First
Renunciation
Qualities
Level
Courage
More quotes by Jack Kornfield
The emotional wisdom of the heart is simple. When we accept our human feelings, a remarkable transformation occurs. Tenderness and wisdom arise naturally and spontaneously. Where we once sought strength over others, now our strength becomes our own where we once sought to defend ourselves, we laugh.
Jack Kornfield
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
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
Jack Kornfield
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
Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.
Jack Kornfield
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
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
Jack Kornfield
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
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
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
Jack Kornfield
With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.
Jack Kornfield
Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
Jack Kornfield
How did we get into this funny-looking body that has a hole at one end in which we regularly stuff dead plants and animals? It's bizarre that we got here, incarnated into this world with these bodies.
Jack Kornfield
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
We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
Jack Kornfield
Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
Jack Kornfield
We do not have to improve ourselves we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
Jack Kornfield
Every individual has a unique contribution.
Jack Kornfield
To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully.
Jack Kornfield
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