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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.

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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Becoming
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Ideas
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Self
Identification
Cling
Happier
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