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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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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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Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
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