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We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

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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In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It is never too late. Yet to sustain love we need to develop practices that cultivate and strengthen the natural compassion within us.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life
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The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.
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When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life.
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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, 'This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,' then you can go beyond.
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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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As we step out of the way new things are born.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.
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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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It is the place of feeling that binds us or frees us.
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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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