We as human beings have the amazing capacity to be reborn at breakfast everyday and say, โThis is a new day.โ
Jack KornfieldWhen attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it seeks control and it fear loss. Ask your heart if attachment has replaced love. If we speak to our heart, it will always tell us the truth.
Jack KornfieldMay I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
Jack KornfieldAccording to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life.
Jack Kornfield