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To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so with this gift, this capacity of loving awareness, of attention that actually can be present for the whole dance.

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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