Jack Kornfield

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”

“In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go.”

“To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh.”

“When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another — and ourselves.”

“After the ecstasy, the laundry.”

“Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis.”

“To love fully and live well requires the ability to grieve.”

“Your heart is a thousand times more powerful than the thoughts of your mind.”

“The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are.”

“You will not be able to be a good Buddhist by knowing the words. You have to live them.”

“True meditation does not mean sitting in lotus posture for hours. It means a quality of attention.”

“What heals is presence, not perfection.”

“The dharma — what is true — is everywhere. It is in the way the wind moves, in the way you serve a meal, in the way you laugh.”

“Mindfulness is the gentle effort to be continuously present with experience.”

“Patience is a willingness to be with what is, even if it is uncomfortable.”

“To live with integrity is to know that what we do matters.”

“True love is born of awareness, not need.”

“You can search the entire universe for someone more deserving of your love than yourself, and you will not find them.”

“The whole world becomes alive when we are mindful.”