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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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the United States of America
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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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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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We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from an honorable and open heart accepting what is true. Do we want to remain stuck? Or to release the fearful sense of self and rest kindly where we are?
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life
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The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
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We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.
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Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.
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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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When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever.
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With growing awareness, you can see where you're caught or where you suffer or where you create suffering. You can then turn toward the difficulties that arise in your life with compassion, bow, and say, these too are part of human incarnation.
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We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to life out.
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Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
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Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given with our hearts.
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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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.
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The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice the insistence that we find out the truth for ourselves, accepting no one's word above our own experience.
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All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.
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Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.
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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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