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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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Psychologist
Writer
the United States of America
Every
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
Jack Kornfield
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Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibilities, and inwardly, it means having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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There is no higher happiness than peace.
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Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart
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It is the place of feeling that binds us or frees us.
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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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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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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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops.
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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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A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.
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All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.
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Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.
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As we step out of the way new things are born.
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When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever.
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When we let go of yearning for the future, preoccupation with the past, and strategies to protect the present, there is nowhere left to go but where we are. To connect with the present moment is to begin to appreciate the beauty of true simplicity.
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Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
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Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.
Jack Kornfield