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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
Jack Kornfield
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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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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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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.
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We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from an honorable and open heart accepting what is true. Do we want to remain stuck? Or to release the fearful sense of self and rest kindly where we are?
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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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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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Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all.
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Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.
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Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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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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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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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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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to those aspects and dimensions of the self that the client may be unable to touch on his or her own.
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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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