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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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Loving
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Awareness
Compassion
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Awaken
Freedom
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Perfect
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Moment
Wherever
Moments
Breathe

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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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We do not have to improve ourselves we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.
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Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.
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