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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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When we let go of yearning for the future, preoccupation with the past, and strategies to protect the present, there is nowhere left to go but where we are. To connect with the present moment is to begin to appreciate the beauty of true simplicity.
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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, 'This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,' then you can go beyond.
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In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.
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It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as if it were a good friend. In modern life we have become so busy with our daily affairs and thoughts that we have lost this essential art of taking time to converse with our heart.
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.
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The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to those aspects and dimensions of the self that the client may be unable to touch on his or her own.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.
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A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.
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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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We do not have to improve ourselves we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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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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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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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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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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