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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
Author
Psychologist
Writer
the United States of America
Kindness
Anything
Hard
Kind
Life

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Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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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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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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