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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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Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.
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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 goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.
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Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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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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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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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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We do not have to improve ourselves we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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How did we get into this funny-looking body that has a hole at one end in which we regularly stuff dead plants and animals? It's bizarre that we got here, incarnated into this world with these bodies.
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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 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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What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?
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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 in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
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Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is the reality of liberation that we can experience, sometimes in a moment and sometimes in transformative ways that change our entire life
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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How well we have learned to let go
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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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