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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

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
Author
Psychologist
Writer
the United States of America
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Mystery
Heart
Value
Philosophy
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Open
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Religion

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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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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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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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Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life.
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Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.
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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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Whatever you believe cosmologically, we all know the tears of the world. We each carry a certain measure of those tears in our hearts.
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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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Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.
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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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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.
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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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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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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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When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.
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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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