Jack Kornfield Quotes About Compassion

Quotes about: Compassion

• If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

  Jack Kornfield

  Motivational, Buddhist, Yoga

  Twitter post from Jan 31, 2015

• 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

• To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

  Jack Kornfield

  Betrayal, Heart, Compassion

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “After The Ecstasy, The Laundry”, p.11, Random House

• Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

  Jack Kornfield

  Compassion, Juju, Respect Yourself

  Jack Kornfield (2014). “A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times”, p.27, Sounds True

• 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

• Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.

  Jack Kornfield

  Compassion, Practice, Perfect

• May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Compassion, Asking

  "Jack Kornfield on Gratitude and Mindfulness". greatergood.berkeley.edu. May 19, 2014.

• In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course I get angry, but then a few minutes later I say to myself, 'What's the use of this,' and I let it go.'

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Acceptance, Compassion

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.136, Shambhala Publications

• 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

• Grant that I have enough suffering that my heart really opens to the great compassion of this world, that I be given enough so that I don't wall myself off from the world, that it breaks down the heart and the separation and the ego and the fear, and it lets me touch the nectar, the milk of kindness itself, of something greater.

  Jack Kornfield

  Wall, Kindness, Heart

• To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Hate, Mean

  Twitter post from Feb 12, 2015

• Strength of the Heart comes from knowing that the pain that we each must bear is part of the greater pain shared by all that lives. It is not just 'our' pain, but 'the' pain and realizing this awakens our universal compassion

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Heart, Compassion

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.75, Random House

• Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in suffering, so have we. If we look honestly at our life, we can see the sorrows and pain that have led to our own wrongdoing. In this we can finally extend forgiveness to ourselves; we can hold the pain we have caused in compassion. Without such mercy, we will live our own life in exile.

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Compassion, Suffering

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

• The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Grief, Heart

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.135, Random House

• According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life.

  Jack Kornfield

  Buddhist, Pain, Heart

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.27, Random House

• 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

• 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

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Compassion

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

  Jack Kornfield

  Kindness, Acceptance, Compassion

• Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open.

  Jack Kornfield

  Buddhist, Lying, Heart

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.24, Random House

• 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

  Heart, Simple, Compassion

• In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It is never too late. Yet to sustain love we need to develop practices that cultivate and strengthen the natural compassion within us.

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Rest In Peace, Compassion

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

  Jack Kornfield

  Compassion, Arise, Interconnection

  Twitter post from Apr 09, 2016

• When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

  Jack Kornfield

  Compassion, Weakness, Quiet

• The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.

  Jack Kornfield

  Compassion, Light, Speak

• The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,' they are almost certainly deluded. If our actions do not come from a kind heart, from loving courage and compassion, they are deluded. If they are based on a distinction between 'us' and 'them,' they stem from delusion. Only to the extent that we act from the wisdom of no separation, understanding how we are woven together, will our intention bring benefit.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Mean, Compassion

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