Jack Kornfield Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• I used to think that to become free you had to practice like a samurai warrior, but now I understand that you have to practice like a devoted mother of a newborn child. It takes the same energy but has a completely different quality. It's compassion and presence rather than having to defeat the enemy in battle.

  Jack Kornfield

  Mother, Children, Warrior

• 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

  Practice, Independence, Quality

• If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a regular practice for people to talk to their heart. There are rituals, stories, and meditative skills in every spiritual tradition that awaken the voice of the heart. To live wisely, this practice is essential, because our heart is the source of our connection to and intimacy with all of life. And life is love. This mysterious quality of love is all around us, as real as gravity... Yet how often we forget about love.

  Jack Kornfield

  Wise, Spiritual, Real

• For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Generosity, Quality

• A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

  Jack Kornfield

  Kindness, Acceptance, Compassion

• Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.

  Jack Kornfield

  Two, Roots, Effort

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.27, Shambhala Publications

• Some other people think that awakened consciousness is really about fullness or presence, being completely present for every moment, but these experiences are only one of the dimensions of awakened consciousness. Understanding these different dimensions as facets of awakening can help with the confusion surrounding the different spiritual paths. They're not leading to different places, but rather reflect the luminous and liberated aspects of consciousness itself. These qualities are not far away; in fact, they are right here.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Thinking, Confusion

• The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.

  Jack Kornfield

  Practice, Quality, Levels

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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