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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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Psychologist
Writer
the United States of America
Joy
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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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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart
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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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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.
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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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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.
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How did we get into this funny-looking body that has a hole at one end in which we regularly stuff dead plants and animals? It's bizarre that we got here, incarnated into this world with these bodies.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.
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Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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