Jack Kornfield Quotes

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future.

People tend to keep their distance.

I'm not after anything, I don't want to be part of politics, I don't want to be a part of anything.

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

Acting like you don’t care is a whole lot easier when you don’t care

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.

I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.

Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

I don't really care how I sound.

Fear invariably and universally induces disengagement, and disengagement is negative division of labor.

I usually kept everybody at arm's distance.

Whatever happens, who cares.

I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway.

I never cared who I was going to fight because, at the end of the day, it makes no difference.

People always talk. People say rude stuff. It bothers you but I'm not losing sleep on it. I don't care.

How can you not care?" "Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page.