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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
Author
Psychologist
Writer
the United States of America
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Life
Preciousness
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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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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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 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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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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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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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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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 must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.
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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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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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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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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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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