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How well we have learned to let go

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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Psychologist
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the United States of America
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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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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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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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A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.
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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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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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