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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
Author
Psychologist
Writer
the United States of America
Live
Even
Love
Among
Joy
Hate

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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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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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No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.
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Yes, there are troubles in the world. There's war and hatred, there's sickness and difficulty. And there is also an undying spirit, an inviolable consciousness that is born in each of us. It is who we are, and it's everything and it's nothing.
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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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True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed.
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When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever.
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When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.
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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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Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.
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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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A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
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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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The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” This isn’t love at all - it is attachment - and attachment is rigid, it is very different from love.
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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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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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