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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
Religion
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Live
Mystery
Heart
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Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.
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In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It is never too late. Yet to sustain love we need to develop practices that cultivate and strengthen the natural compassion within us.
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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.
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How did we get into this funny-looking body that has a hole at one end in which we regularly stuff dead plants and animals? It's bizarre that we got here, incarnated into this world with these bodies.
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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.
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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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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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You are the mystery incarnating itself, and it's beautiful when you remember. It's also painful and awesome and it contains unbearable beauty and unfathomable pain - the ocean of tears and galaxy of bliss. I don't say that lightly, but it's what we have.
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Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.
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Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.
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As we step out of the way new things are born.
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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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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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The trouble is that you think you have time.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.
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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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We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.
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