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

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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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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When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.
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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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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.
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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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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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Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.
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Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.
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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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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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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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As we step out of the way new things are born.
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