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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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In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.
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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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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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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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The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” This isn’t love at all - it is attachment - and attachment is rigid, it is very different from love.
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In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.
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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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We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.
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In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It is never too late. Yet to sustain love we need to develop practices that cultivate and strengthen the natural compassion within us.
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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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We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?
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Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.
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We do not have to improve ourselves we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion you can weep.
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Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is the reality of liberation that we can experience, sometimes in a moment and sometimes in transformative ways that change our entire life
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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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Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.
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