To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life Jack Kornfield More Quotes by Jack Kornfield More Quotes From Jack Kornfield Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely. Jack Kornfield capacity-to-loveattentioninspirational The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are. Jack Kornfield mindwarway 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 lightspeakcompassion It's much better to become a Buddha than a Buddhist. Jack Kornfield buddhist When I sit with students, I do not just want to help them solve their problems. I want to find a moment with each person where their mind stops and their eyes open. I want us to be together as if we were lying in a field on the underside of the earth on a clear summer night, held only by the magnet of gravity, looking down into a bottomless sea of stars. I want us to remember together the beauty all around us. Jack Kornfield starssummerlying When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it seeks control and it fear loss. Ask your heart if attachment has replaced love. If we speak to our heart, it will always tell us the truth. Jack Kornfield attachmentlossheart We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities. Jack Kornfield warriorpainheart To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others. Jack Kornfield live-lifeerrorsunderstanding There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart. Jack Kornfield mountainpracticeheart According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life. Jack Kornfield buddhistpainheart As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine. Jack Kornfield bowscompassionheart The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything. Jack Kornfield spirituallife-isheart 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 earthperfectworld In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love. Jack Kornfield facetscrystalsconsciousness Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention. Jack Kornfield medicinewaitingphilosophy The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,' they are almost certainly deluded. If our actions do not come from a kind heart, from loving courage and compassion, they are deluded. If they are based on a distinction between 'us' and 'them,' they stem from delusion. Only to the extent that we act from the wisdom of no separation, understanding how we are woven together, will our intention bring benefit. Jack Kornfield compassionheartmean In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom. In fact, as one serves the mind, one sees that following desires, attractions, and repulsions is not at all freedom, but is a kind of bondage. A mind filled with desires and grasping inevitably entails great suffering. Freedom is not to be gained through the ability to perform certain external actions. True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom. Jack Kornfield expressionmindmean 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 growingcompassionsuffering 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 pathheartphilosophy Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels. Jack Kornfield impermanencelevelsmeditation
