Acceptance is not passivity. It is a courageous step in the process of transformation.

— Jack Kornfield

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

— Jack Kornfield

As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. Whatever happens does not really matter.

— Jack Kornfield

Attachment is conditional, offers love only to certain people in certain ways; it is exclusive. Love, in the sense of Etta, used by Buddha, is a universal, nondiscriminating feeling of caring and connectedness.

— Jack Kornfield

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

— Jack Kornfield

Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha’s path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom.

— Jack Kornfield

But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of confusion and pain.

— Jack Kornfield

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

— Jack Kornfield

If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and focused on meditation; it is impossible for the heart to open.

— Jack Kornfield

If you put a spoonful of satin a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of satin a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts reopen like the sky, vast as the ocean.

— Jack Kornfield