Quote

There is no higher happiness than peace.

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
Higher
Happiness
Peace

More quotes by Jack Kornfield

Image
If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and focused in meditation it is impossible for the heart to open.
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
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
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
Yes, there are troubles in the world. There's war and hatred, there's sickness and difficulty. And there is also an undying spirit, an inviolable consciousness that is born in each of us. It is who we are, and it's everything and it's nothing.
Jack Kornfield
Image
What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation...we must follow what brings us alive.
Jack Kornfield
Image
No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.
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
This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.
Jack Kornfield
Image
The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
Jack Kornfield
Image
How well we have learned to let go
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
Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.
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
The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.
Jack Kornfield
Image
We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.
Jack Kornfield
Image
To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life
Jack Kornfield
Image
When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.
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
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
Jack Kornfield