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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
Jack Kornfield
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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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the United States of America
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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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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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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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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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In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is 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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We do not have to improve ourselves we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, 'This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,' then you can go beyond.
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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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