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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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When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all.
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Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.
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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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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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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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To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully.
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We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.
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Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.
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In this world there are two great sources of strength. One rests with those who are not afraid to kill. The other rests with those who are not afraid to love.
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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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The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.
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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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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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What we seek is what we are.
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.
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Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.
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How well we have learned to let go
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Whatever you believe cosmologically, we all know the tears of the world. We each carry a certain measure of those tears in our hearts.
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When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever.
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