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True love is not for the faint-hearted.

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
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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions create problems. Considered responses bring peace. With a peaceful heart whatever happens can be met with wisdom...Peace is not weak it is unshakable.
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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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The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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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.
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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.
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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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Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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.
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To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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The trouble is that you think you have time.
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Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation fed by a subtle fear of the heart. We pull back, believing that what happens to others is not our concern. Our courage leaves us. Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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