In a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own experience. In such a society, it is almost impossible to settle into our bodies or stay connected with our hearts, let alone connect with one another or the earth where we live.

— Jack Kornfield

Jack Kornfield Quotes

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

The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.

— Jack Kornfield

The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.

— Jack Kornfield

We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to discover that which is sacred.

— Jack Kornfield

Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.

— Jack Kornfield

It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.

— Jack Kornfield

A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.

— Jack Kornfield

Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.

— Jack Kornfield

There is no higher happiness than peace.

— Jack Kornfield

In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart’s task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it offers, and our task is to bow to it, to meet it with understanding and compassion.

— Jack Kornfield

The Sufis have a saying: “Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post.” This brings together both parts of practice: pray, yes, but also make sure that you do what is necessary in the world.

— Jack Kornfield

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

What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?

— Jack Kornfield

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

— Jack Kornfield

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

— Jack Kornfield

You have to accept the way things are before you can move on.

— Jack Kornfield

With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.

— Jack Kornfield

Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.

— Jack Kornfield

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

— Jack Kornfield

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

— Jack Kornfield
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