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

Jack Kornfield

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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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As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life.
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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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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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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 we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.
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Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.
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Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.
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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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Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.
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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, 'This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,' then you can go beyond.
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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We do not have to improve ourselves we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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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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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.
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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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We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.
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