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

Jack Kornfield

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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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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your heart.
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Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.
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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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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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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.
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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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We do not have to improve ourselves we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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One of the essential tasks for living a wise life is letting go. Letting go is the path to freedom. It is only by letting go of the hopes, the fears, the pain, the past, the stories that have a hold on us that we can quiet our mind and open our heart.
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Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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