Jack Kornfield Acceptance Quotations

Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions create problems. Considered responses bring peace. With a peaceful heart whatever happens can be met with wisdom...Peace is not weak; it is unshakable.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course I get angry, but then a few minutes later I say to myself, 'What's the use of this,' and I let it go.'

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance....