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No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
Author
Psychologist
Writer
the United States of America
Extraordinary
Mystery
Creation
Consciousness
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World

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Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions create problems. Considered responses bring peace. With a peaceful heart whatever happens can be met with wisdom...Peace is not weak it is unshakable.
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Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.
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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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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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When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.
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Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your heart.
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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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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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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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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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The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
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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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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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True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed.
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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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In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.
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It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.
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The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” This isn’t love at all - it is attachment - and attachment is rigid, it is very different from love.
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Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.
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