Jack Kornfield Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.

  Jack Kornfield

  Compassion, Giving, Hatred

• As desire abates, generosity is born. When we are connected and present, what else is there to do but give?

  Jack Kornfield

  Generosity, Giving, Desire

• Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own good fortune and in the good fortune of others... We can be joyful for people we love, for moments of goodness, for sunlight and trees, and for the very breath within our lungs. Like an innocent child, we can rejoice in life itself, in being alive.

  Jack Kornfield

  Gratitude, Children, People

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

• 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

  Spiritual, War, Discipline

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