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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.
Jack Kornfield
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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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