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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?

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
Author
Psychologist
Writer
the United States of America
Seeds
Inspirational
Heart
Plant
Love
Garden
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Compassion
Grow
Grows
Spiritual
Resentment
Fear

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