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Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
Author
Psychologist
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the United States of America
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Practice
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Gently
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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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The trouble is that you think you have time.
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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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When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all.
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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.
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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Every individual has a unique contribution.
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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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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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Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
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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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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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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation...we must follow what brings us alive.
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What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?
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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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How well we have learned to let go
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