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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation...we must follow what brings us alive.
Jack Kornfield
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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.
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The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present.
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Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.
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No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.
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You are the mystery incarnating itself, and it's beautiful when you remember. It's also painful and awesome and it contains unbearable beauty and unfathomable pain - the ocean of tears and galaxy of bliss. I don't say that lightly, but it's what we have.
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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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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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Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
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There is no higher happiness than peace.
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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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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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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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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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The emotional wisdom of the heart is simple. When we accept our human feelings, a remarkable transformation occurs. Tenderness and wisdom arise naturally and spontaneously. Where we once sought strength over others, now our strength becomes our own where we once sought to defend ourselves, we laugh.
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Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.
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It is the place of feeling that binds us or frees us.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
Jack Kornfield
To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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