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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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For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.
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Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.
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We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to life out.
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This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.
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We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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With growing awareness, you can see where you're caught or where you suffer or where you create suffering. You can then turn toward the difficulties that arise in your life with compassion, bow, and say, these too are part of human incarnation.
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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.
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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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If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and focused in meditation it is impossible for the heart to open.
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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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Whatever you believe cosmologically, we all know the tears of the world. We each carry a certain measure of those tears in our hearts.
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What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?
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All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.
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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.
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