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The trouble is that you think you have time.

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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Psychologist
Writer
the United States of America
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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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Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.
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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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A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.
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It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as if it were a good friend. In modern life we have become so busy with our daily affairs and thoughts that we have lost this essential art of taking time to converse with our heart.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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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What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so with this gift, this capacity of loving awareness, of attention that actually can be present for the whole dance.
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We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.
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When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.
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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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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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In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.
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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation...we must follow what brings us alive.
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The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.
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