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As we step out of the way new things are born.

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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Psychologist
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the United States of America
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With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.
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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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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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?
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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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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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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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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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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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Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.
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What we seek is what we are.
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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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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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Every individual has a unique contribution.
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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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To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so with this gift, this capacity of loving awareness, of attention that actually can be present for the whole dance.
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The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
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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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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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