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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
Shows
Fierce
True
Compassionate
Done
Rough
Heart
Vulnerable
Way
Honestly
Trod

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In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It is never too late. Yet to sustain love we need to develop practices that cultivate and strengthen the natural compassion within us.
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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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We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from an honorable and open heart accepting what is true. Do we want to remain stuck? Or to release the fearful sense of self and rest kindly where we are?
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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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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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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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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.
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Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.
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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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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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Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.
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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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Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.
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One of the essential tasks for living a wise life is letting go. Letting go is the path to freedom. It is only by letting go of the hopes, the fears, the pain, the past, the stories that have a hold on us that we can quiet our mind and open our heart.
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Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.
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To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.
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Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.
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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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