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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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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
Author
Psychologist
Writer
the United States of America
First
Approach
Repeated
Present
Remembering
Saying
Difficulties
Suffering
Acknowledge
Whatever
Arise
Spiritual
Sadness
Remember
Buddhism
Naming
Firsts
Difficulty
Softly

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