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Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.

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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Amazement
Awake
Gratitude
Constant
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Spiritual
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Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.
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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all.
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Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life.
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.
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We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.
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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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
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