Jack Kornfield Inspirational Quotes

Quotes about: Inspirational

• The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

  Jack Kornfield

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Fear

  Twitter post from Oct 07, 2015

• The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.

  Jack Kornfield

  Inspirational, Moving On, Forgiveness

• At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

  Jack Kornfield

  Love, Inspirational, Death

• Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.

  Jack Kornfield

  Inspirational, Pain, Hate

• The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to those aspects and dimensions of the self that the client may be unable to touch on his or her own.

  Jack Kornfield

  Inspirational, Self, Meditation

• No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.

  Jack Kornfield

  Inspirational, Buddhist, Past

• When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.

  Jack Kornfield

  Inspirational, Healing, Eye

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.252, Random House

• It is our commitment to wholeness that matters, the willingness to unfold in every deep aspect of our being.

  Jack Kornfield

  Inspirational, Commitment, Matter

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.253, Random House

• Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

  Jack Kornfield

  Inspirational, Capacity To Love, Attention

• What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation...we must follow what brings us alive.

  Jack Kornfield

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Gardening

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.203, Random House

• As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, 'This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,' then you can go beyond.

  Jack Kornfield

  Inspirational, Long, Mind

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.178, Random House

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