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The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world
Jack Kornfield
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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It is never too late. Yet to sustain love we need to develop practices that cultivate and strengthen the natural compassion within us.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.
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You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
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...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
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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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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your heart.
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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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It is the place of feeling that binds us or frees us.
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The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice the insistence that we find out the truth for ourselves, accepting no one's word above our own experience.
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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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