Jack Kornfield Inspirational Quotations

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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