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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
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Awaken
Freedom
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Wherever
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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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The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice the insistence that we find out the truth for ourselves, accepting no one's word above our own experience.
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According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the quivering of the pure heart when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life.
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With growing awareness, you can see where you're caught or where you suffer or where you create suffering. You can then turn toward the difficulties that arise in your life with compassion, bow, and say, these too are part of human incarnation.
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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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The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.
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We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to life out.
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The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world
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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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