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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
Came
World
Extraordinary
Mystery
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Consciousness

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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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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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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation fed by a subtle fear of the heart. We pull back, believing that what happens to others is not our concern. Our courage leaves us. Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so with this gift, this capacity of loving awareness, of attention that actually can be present for the whole dance.
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Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.
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Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.
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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation...we must follow what brings us alive.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice the insistence that we find out the truth for ourselves, accepting no one's word above our own experience.
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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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We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
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This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.
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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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We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.
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It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.
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Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.
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As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, 'This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,' then you can go beyond.
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