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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
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the United States of America
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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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An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.
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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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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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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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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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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It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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Whatever you believe cosmologically, we all know the tears of the world. We each carry a certain measure of those tears in our hearts.
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In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.
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Every individual has a unique contribution.
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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What we seek is what we are.
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To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully.
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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 work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world
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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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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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