In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go Jack Kornfield More Quotes by Jack Kornfield More Quotes From Jack Kornfield Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement. Jack Kornfield gratitude states spiritual There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall. Jack Kornfield web-of-life born fall Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone you know who is not present with you (any third party). Jack Kornfield gossip party heart To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free. Jack Kornfield insight meditation life-is How well we have learned to let go Jack Kornfield wells letting-go 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 gratitude kindness heart Great pain, when it is honored from the heart, opens into great understanding. Jack Kornfield pain understanding heart Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice. Jack Kornfield judgmental practice spiritual Be mindful of intention. Intention is the seed that creates our future. Jack Kornfield seeds our-future intention A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body. Jack Kornfield support practice exercise Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care. Jack Kornfield virtue care integrity Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom. Jack Kornfield conscience loses integrity In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion. Jack Kornfield buddhist meditation practice We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to discover that which is sacred. Jack Kornfield buddhism practice spiritual Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life. Jack Kornfield gratitude cracks grass 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 determination spiritual teacher The Sufis have a saying: "Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post." This brings together both parts of practice: pray, yes, but also make sure that you do what is necessary in the world. Jack Kornfield ties practice prayer It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release. Jack Kornfield suffering would-be past 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 discipline spiritual war Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a new way by developing a stillness of mind and a strength of heart. Jack Kornfield spiritual heart mean
