Jack Kornfield Quotes

When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don't get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It's a very tender, nonaggressive, open-ended state of affairs.

No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship... Everything has its time. And everything ends.

Things don't go on forever, and the quicker you accept that change is inevitable, the happier you're gonna be.

In this industry, where things change so quickly, I've found that having no expectations is the happiest way to go.

Change is inevitable. Why hold onto what you have to let go of?

The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.

Everything ends, people move on, they don't look back. It's how they should be.

I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.

All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection.

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the will of God, as He has bestowed upon man neither the wisdom nor the power to enable him to check it. The great lesson in these things is, that man must strengthen himself doubly at such times to fulfill his duty and to do what is right, and must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.

Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way everything is in sight. Trees bend so branches don't have to break. We mend the wounds of our last mistake... I live one way holding onto the fence post. I live another way sliding off into space. Each life is loosely assembled... Birds swim, fish do fly. Proud man begins to cry. Birds swim, fish do fly. Things change, so why can't I?

Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

The things you cannot change you can't waste your time on.

I'm hyper-focused on loss. But I know it's just the impermanence of being here.

Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on.

When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been, it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.

You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were going to have.

There was one element of my childhood that was really a positive asset for me. By moving a lot, I learned to assimilate into whatever new surroundings I had and to become very comfortable with people quickly. I think that was one of the strongest contributing factors to my becoming an actor, because I constantly had to readjust, even reinvent. But at the same time, it also became very easy for me not to become attached to people, places, or things. I learned to enjoy people and places for the time I had, for the moment, to be in the moment, and move on.

You have to move forward. It's constantly changing. Everything changes and everything falls apart. You have to be nimble and on your toes and accessible to it all. Not everyone is on board with this.

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

#1 Never Get Used to Anything.

The only thing we can depend on in life is that everything changes. The seasons, our partners, what we want and need. We hold hands with out high school friends and swear to never lose touch, and then we do.Change is the only constant. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being.