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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.

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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Yes, there are troubles in the world. There's war and hatred, there's sickness and difficulty. And there is also an undying spirit, an inviolable consciousness that is born in each of us. It is who we are, and it's everything and it's nothing.
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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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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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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life
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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.
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The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” This isn’t love at all - it is attachment - and attachment is rigid, it is very different from love.
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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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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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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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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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Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.
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It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can't close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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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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