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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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Psychologist
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the United States of America
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Wisdom
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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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This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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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.
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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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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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...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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Yes, there are troubles in the world. There's war and hatred, there's sickness and difficulty. And there is also an undying spirit, an inviolable consciousness that is born in each of us. It is who we are, and it's everything and it's nothing.
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When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all.
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As we step out of the way new things are born.
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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.
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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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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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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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What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?
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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
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The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” This isn’t love at all - it is attachment - and attachment is rigid, it is very different from love.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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