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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.
Jack Kornfield
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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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The trouble is that you think you have time.
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True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed.
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Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
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As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life.
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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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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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