Jack Kornfield Quotes About Buddhism

Quotes about: Buddhism

• We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Buddhism, Order

• 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, Doubt, Suffering

• When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Heart

• We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

  Jack Kornfield

  Buddhism, Night, Suffering

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2015

• We can always begin again.

  Jack Kornfield

  Buddhism, Suffering, Begin Again

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

• Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Fighting, Buddhism

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.23, Random House

• We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Buddhism, Profound

• We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.

  Jack Kornfield

  Art, Buddhism, Suffering

• When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Sadness, Buddhism

• 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

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Practice

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

  Jack Kornfield

  Buddhism, Race, Suffering

• We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

  Jack Kornfield

  Buddhism, Suffering, Doe

• Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a new way by developing a stillness of mind and a strength of heart.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Heart, Mean

• In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is. We can touch with great compassion the pain from the contracted identities that we and others have created in the world.

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Buddhism, Compassion

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