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Jack Kornfield Quotes about Compassion

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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Compassion, Juju, Respect Yourself

Jack Kornfield (2014). “A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times”, p.27, Sounds True

Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.

Compassion, Giving, Hatred

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

Kindness, Acceptance, Compassion

Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in suffering, so have we. If we look honestly at our life, we can see the sorrows and pain that have led to our own wrongdoing. In this we can finally extend forgiveness to ourselves; we can hold the pain we have caused in compassion. Without such mercy, we will live our own life in exile.

Pain, Compassion, Suffering

Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

Betrayal, Heart, Compassion

Jack Kornfield (2008). “After The Ecstasy, The Laundry”, p.11, Random House

May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.

Heart, Compassion, Asking

"Jack Kornfield on Gratitude and Mindfulness". greatergood.berkeley.edu. May 19, 2014.

Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.

Compassion, Practice, Perfect

Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited by the separateness of pity, nor by the fear of being overwhelmed. When we come to rest in the great heart of compassion, we discover a capacity to bear witness to, suffer with, and hold dear with our own vulnerable heart the sorrows and beauties of the world.

Pain, Heart, Compassion

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

Heart, Compassion, Understanding

Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.101, Shambhala Publications

With growing awareness, you can see where you're caught or where you suffer or where you create suffering. You can then turn toward the difficulties that arise in your life with compassion, bow, and say, these too are part of human incarnation.

Compassion, Suffering, Growing

Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.

Compassion, Arise, Interconnection

Twitter post from Apr 09, 2016

In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course I get angry, but then a few minutes later I say to myself, 'What's the use of this,' and I let it go.'

Letting Go, Acceptance, Compassion

Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.136, Shambhala Publications

In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is. We can touch with great compassion the pain from the contracted identities that we and others have created in the world.

Pain, Buddhism, Compassion

The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,' they are almost certainly deluded. If our actions do not come from a kind heart, from loving courage and compassion, they are deluded. If they are based on a distinction between 'us' and 'them,' they stem from delusion. Only to the extent that we act from the wisdom of no separation, understanding how we are woven together, will our intention bring benefit.

Heart, Mean, Compassion

What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?

Letting Go, Spiritual, Compassion

Strength of the Heart comes from knowing that the pain that we each must bear is part of the greater pain shared by all that lives. It is not just 'our' pain, but 'the' pain and realizing this awakens our universal compassion

Pain, Heart, Compassion

Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.75, Random House

In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it offers, and our task is to bow to it, to meet it with understanding and compassion.

Heart, Simple, Compassion

The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.

Compassion, Light, Speak

As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

Heart, Compassion, Bows

Twitter post from Mar 20, 2015

In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It is never too late. Yet to sustain love we need to develop practices that cultivate and strengthen the natural compassion within us.

Letting Go, Rest In Peace, Compassion

When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

Compassion, Weakness, Quiet

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