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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 emotional wisdom of the heart is simple. When we accept our human feelings, a remarkable transformation occurs. Tenderness and wisdom arise naturally and spontaneously. Where we once sought strength over others, now our strength becomes our own where we once sought to defend ourselves, we laugh.
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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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There is no higher happiness than peace.
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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.
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Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given with our hearts.
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Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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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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We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.
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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.
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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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