Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.

— Jack Kornfield

No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

— Jack Kornfield

Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm.

— Jack Kornfield

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

— Jack Kornfield

Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibilities, and inwardly, it means having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding.

— Jack Kornfield

The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to.

— Jack Kornfield

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

— Jack Kornfield

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is simply to release any images and emotions.

— Jack Kornfield

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

— Jack Kornfield

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding a gradual training.

— Jack Kornfield