Jack Kornfield Quotes

As we stop monitoring others' opinions, we connect with our heart's wisdom.

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.

It turns out that our ability to connect with other people is driven by our ability to connect deeply with ourselves. And that can be just a few minutes sitting on your porch feeling the breeze against your face. That can be a few moments spent in meditation or in prayer or remembering three things you're grateful for.

The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone; at times it is positively to be wished for.....In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves to ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God.

Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.

The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

'Presence of God' is really that understanding that sometimes when you step out of your own shoes and just open your ears and listen to what's going on around you, you get answers to the questions you were asking.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

I'm very introspective, and I mostly don't talk to people. I get into a real quiet, meditative place.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.