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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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It is the place of feeling that binds us or frees us.
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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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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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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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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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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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Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.
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Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.
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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation...we must follow what brings us alive.
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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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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.
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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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