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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.

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
Author
Psychologist
Writer
the United States of America
Love
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Capacity
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Difficulties
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