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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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Psychologist
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the United States of America
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Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.
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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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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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...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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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life
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Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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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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Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation fed by a subtle fear of the heart. We pull back, believing that what happens to others is not our concern. Our courage leaves us. Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.
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It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can't close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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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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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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The trouble is that you think you have time.
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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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Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.
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