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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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Psychologist
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the United States of America
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The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world
Jack Kornfield
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There is no higher happiness than peace.
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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously in your heart.
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Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.
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When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.
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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Whatever you believe cosmologically, we all know the tears of the world. We each carry a certain measure of those tears in our hearts.
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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your heart.
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True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed.
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You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.
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...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
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