Jack Kornfield Life Quotations

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.

The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.

There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall.

To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.

There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life.

Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?