When I sit with students, I do not just want to help them solve their problems. I want to find a moment with each person where their mind stops and their eyes open. I want us to be together as if we were lying in a field on the underside of the earth on a clear summer night, held only by the magnet of gravity, looking down into a bottomless sea of stars. I want us to remember together the beauty all around us.
What we seek is what we are. - Jack Kornfield
What we seek is what we are.
- Jack Kornfield
Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we resist and fear sec… - Jack Kornfield
Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we resist and fear sec…
In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go - Jack Kornfield
In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go
No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism an… - Jack Kornfield
No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism an…
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
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.
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart. - Jack Kornfield
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf. - Jack Kornfield
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there? - Jack Kornfield
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. - Jack Kornfield
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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