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You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
Author
Psychologist
Writer
the United States of America
Finally
Ragged
Broken
Chris
Spirit
Awaken
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Fierce
True
Compassionate
Done
Rough
Heart
Vulnerable
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When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.
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Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.
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With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.
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The trouble is that you think you have time.
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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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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.
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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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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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The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present.
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How did we get into this funny-looking body that has a hole at one end in which we regularly stuff dead plants and animals? It's bizarre that we got here, incarnated into this world with these bodies.
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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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To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.
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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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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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