Quote

Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.

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
Freedom
Exact
Perfect
Ingredients
Moment
Wherever
Moments
Breathe
Place
Loving
Find
Awareness
Compassion
Practice
Awaken

More quotes by Jack Kornfield

Image
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
Jack Kornfield
Image
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
Image
The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion you can weep.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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
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
Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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
As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, 'This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,' then you can go beyond.
Jack Kornfield
Image
The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
Jack Kornfield
Image
There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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
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
Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.
Jack Kornfield
Image
With growing awareness, you can see where you're caught or where you suffer or where you create suffering. You can then turn toward the difficulties that arise in your life with compassion, bow, and say, these too are part of human incarnation.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Every individual has a unique contribution.
Jack Kornfield
Image
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
Image
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
Jack Kornfield