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We do not have to improve ourselves we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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Psychologist
Writer
the United States of America
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Heart

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When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever.
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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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We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.
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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed.
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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.
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We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.
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The trouble is that you think you have time.
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When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.
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The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
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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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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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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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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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously in your 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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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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