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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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Psychologist
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the United States of America
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The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
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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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When we let go of yearning for the future, preoccupation with the past, and strategies to protect the present, there is nowhere left to go but where we are. To connect with the present moment is to begin to appreciate the beauty of true simplicity.
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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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Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.
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Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
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As we step out of the way new things are born.
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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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With growing awareness, you can see where you're caught or where you suffer or where you create suffering. You can then turn toward the difficulties that arise in your life with compassion, bow, and say, these too are part of human incarnation.
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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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In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.
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Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.
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Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.
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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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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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