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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.

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
Author
Psychologist
Writer
the United States of America
Compassion
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Awaken
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Wherever
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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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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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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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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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Every individual has a unique contribution.
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Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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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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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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Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
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