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We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.

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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In this world there are two great sources of strength. One rests with those who are not afraid to kill. The other rests with those who are not afraid to love.
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You are the mystery incarnating itself, and it's beautiful when you remember. It's also painful and awesome and it contains unbearable beauty and unfathomable pain - the ocean of tears and galaxy of bliss. I don't say that lightly, but it's what we have.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
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Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.
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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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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.
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Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.
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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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Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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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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Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.
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To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.
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We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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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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