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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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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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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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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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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The emotional wisdom of the heart is simple. When we accept our human feelings, a remarkable transformation occurs. Tenderness and wisdom arise naturally and spontaneously. Where we once sought strength over others, now our strength becomes our own where we once sought to defend ourselves, we laugh.
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It is the place of feeling that binds us or frees us.
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Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.
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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.
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Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.
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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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Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.
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Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is the reality of liberation that we can experience, sometimes in a moment and sometimes in transformative ways that change our entire life
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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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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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