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...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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Psychologist
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the United States of America
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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion you can weep.
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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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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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Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.
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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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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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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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In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.
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The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world
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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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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.
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