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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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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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True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.
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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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Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.
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No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.
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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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With growing awareness, you can see where you're caught or where you suffer or where you create suffering. You can then turn toward the difficulties that arise in your life with compassion, bow, and say, these too are part of human incarnation.
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Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.
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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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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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The emotional wisdom of the heart is simple. When we accept our human feelings, a remarkable transformation occurs. Tenderness and wisdom arise naturally and spontaneously. Where we once sought strength over others, now our strength becomes our own where we once sought to defend ourselves, we laugh.
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When we let go of yearning for the future, preoccupation with the past, and strategies to protect the present, there is nowhere left to go but where we are. To connect with the present moment is to begin to appreciate the beauty of true simplicity.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.
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