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The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice the insistence that we find out the truth for ourselves, accepting no one's word above our own experience.

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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