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We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
Author
Psychologist
Writer
the United States of America
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Deeply
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Buddhism
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