Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes.
Jack KornfieldThere are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.
Jack KornfieldTo let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
Jack KornfieldEmbodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.
Jack KornfieldWe need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.
Jack KornfieldI used to think that to become free you had to practice like a samurai warrior, but now I understand that you have to practice like a devoted mother of a newborn child. It takes the same energy but has a completely different quality. It's compassion and presence rather than having to defeat the enemy in battle.
Jack Kornfield