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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
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Psychologist
Writer
the United States of America
Life
Kindness
Anything
Hard
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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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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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Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.
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Whatever you believe cosmologically, we all know the tears of the world. We each carry a certain measure of those tears in our hearts.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.
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We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from an honorable and open heart accepting what is true. Do we want to remain stuck? Or to release the fearful sense of self and rest kindly where we are?
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When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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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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You are the mystery incarnating itself, and it's beautiful when you remember. It's also painful and awesome and it contains unbearable beauty and unfathomable pain - the ocean of tears and galaxy of bliss. I don't say that lightly, but it's what we have.
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When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.
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In this world there are two great sources of strength. One rests with those who are not afraid to kill. The other rests with those who are not afraid to love.
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Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
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Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.
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Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.
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Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.
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