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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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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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One of the essential tasks for living a wise life is letting go. Letting go is the path to freedom. It is only by letting go of the hopes, the fears, the pain, the past, the stories that have a hold on us that we can quiet our mind and open our heart.
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
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There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops.
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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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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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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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Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
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The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world
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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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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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An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.
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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 way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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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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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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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.
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