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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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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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Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
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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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All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.
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Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart
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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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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.
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There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops.
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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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Yes, there are troubles in the world. There's war and hatred, there's sickness and difficulty. And there is also an undying spirit, an inviolable consciousness that is born in each of us. It is who we are, and it's everything and it's nothing.
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Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given with our hearts.
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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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Every individual has a unique contribution.
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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 don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.
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Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.
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