Quote

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

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
Wisely
Meditate
Possibilities
Discover
Compassionately
Fully
Lovingly
Capacity
Capacities
Possibility
Live
Awaken

More quotes by Jack Kornfield

Image
Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.
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
Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your heart.
Jack Kornfield
Image
We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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
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
We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to life out.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
Jack Kornfield
Image
Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
Jack Kornfield
Image
All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.
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
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
Image
Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.
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
If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
Jack Kornfield
Image
When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
Jack Kornfield