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All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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the United States of America
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When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.
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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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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed.
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