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What we seek is what we are.

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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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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.
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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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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Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.
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When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever.
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In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.
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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion you can weep.
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We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.
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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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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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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our 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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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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According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the quivering of the pure heart when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of 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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Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.
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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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