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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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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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Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.
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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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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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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.
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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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It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as if it were a good friend. In modern life we have become so busy with our daily affairs and thoughts that we have lost this essential art of taking time to converse with our heart.
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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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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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