We as human beings have the amazing capacity to be reborn at breakfast everyday and say, “This is a new day.” Jack Kornfield More Quotes by Jack Kornfield More Quotes From Jack Kornfield We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go. Jack Kornfield journey spiritual reason We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything. Jack Kornfield buddhism letting-go profound Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again. Jack Kornfield forgiveness justice mean Everyone and everything is in some degree or other our teacher. Jack Kornfield degrees teacher Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is the reality of liberation that we can experience, sometimes in a moment and sometimes in transformative ways that change our entire life Jack Kornfield generosity ease reality There are many good forms of meditation practice. A good meditation practice is any one that develops awareness or mindfulness of our body and our sense, of our mind and heart. Jack Kornfield meditation-practice mind heart As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. whatever happens does not really matter. Jack Kornfield new-experiences going-away wise Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change. Jack Kornfield freedom-and-happiness loss moving 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 loving-yourself wisdom reality Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched. Jack Kornfield achievement heart love When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice. Only in this moment can we discover that which is timeless. Only here can we find the love that we seek. Love in the past is simply memory, and love in the future is fantasy. Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world. Jack Kornfield spiritual letting-go memories 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 pain grief moving To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free. Jack Kornfield interest kindness looks Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world. Jack Kornfield understanding reality world The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Jack Kornfield way-to-live accepting miracle Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart. Jack Kornfield heart way needs The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out the truth for ourselves, accepting no one's word above our own experience. Jack Kornfield independence quality practice We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us—which in most cases is a very long time—but to look at it as just that, a vehicle, a raft to help us cross through the waters of doubt, confusion, desire, and fear. Jack Kornfield practice water long Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. Jack Kornfield illusion-of-control surrender meditation We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears - to declare our right to awaken. Jack Kornfield buddhism suffering doubt
