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What we seek is what we are.

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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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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Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.
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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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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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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.
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The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to those aspects and dimensions of the self that the client may be unable to touch on his or her own.
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The trouble is that you think you have time.
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The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
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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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We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?
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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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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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Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.
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To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully.
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It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as if it were a good friend. In modern life we have become so busy with our daily affairs and thoughts that we have lost this essential art of taking time to converse with our heart.
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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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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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Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart
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To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
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We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from an honorable and open heart accepting what is true. Do we want to remain stuck? Or to release the fearful sense of self and rest kindly where we are?
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