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With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
Author
Psychologist
Writer
the United States of America
Mindfulness
Observe
Balance
Learning
Powerful
Way

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There are many good forms of meditation practice. A good meditation practice is any one that develops awareness or mindfulness of our body and our sense, of our mind and heart.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.
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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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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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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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This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.
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You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.
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We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to life out.
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When we let go of yearning for the future, preoccupation with the past, and strategies to protect the present, there is nowhere left to go but where we are. To connect with the present moment is to begin to appreciate the beauty of true simplicity.
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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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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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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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A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.
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We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.
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There is no higher happiness than peace.
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The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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How well we have learned to let go
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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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