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It is the place of feeling that binds us or frees us.

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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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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Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.
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In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.
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Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions create problems. Considered responses bring peace. With a peaceful heart whatever happens can be met with wisdom...Peace is not weak it is unshakable.
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The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.
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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.
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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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