Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.
Jack KornfieldOnce we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying the same, we realize that relaxing and letting go is a wiser way to live. Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.
Jack KornfieldWhen you rest in presence and pure awareness, sometimes everything is experienced as love because you're connected with all that is, and love is simply the nature of being.
Jack KornfieldNo one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.
Jack KornfieldWe don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.
Jack KornfieldThe longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way of spiritual initiation to prove one's entry into the world of men and women, initiation happens instead in the road or the street, in cars at high speed, with drugs, with dangerous sex, with weapons. However troubling, this behavior is rooted in a fundamental truth; a need to grow.
Jack Kornfield