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Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
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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 true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can't close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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Every individual has a unique contribution.
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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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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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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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Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.
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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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All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life
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It is the place of feeling that binds us or frees us.
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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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The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present.
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