No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism and environmental destruction. What's called for on the Earth at this time is really a change of heart ... the question is really not the future of humanity, but the presence of eternity.
Jack KornfieldWe must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
Jack KornfieldWhatever you believe cosmologically, we all know the tears of the world. We each carry a certain measure of those tears in our hearts.
Jack KornfieldTo open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.
Jack Kornfield