Jack Kornfield Understanding Quotations

Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.

Great pain, when it is honored from the heart, opens into great understanding.

The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.

Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.

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

We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.