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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
Jack Kornfield
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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to those aspects and dimensions of the self that the client may be unable to touch on his or her own.
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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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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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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.
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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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