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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
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Psychologist
Writer
the United States of America
Love
Awaken
Patience
Understanding
Whatever
Use
Come

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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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Yes, there are troubles in the world. There's war and hatred, there's sickness and difficulty. And there is also an undying spirit, an inviolable consciousness that is born in each of us. It is who we are, and it's everything and it's nothing.
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If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and focused in meditation it is impossible for the heart to open.
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To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.
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According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the quivering of the pure heart when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life.
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In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.
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There are many good forms of meditation practice. A good meditation practice is any one that develops awareness or mindfulness of our body and our sense, of our mind and heart.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life
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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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An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.
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The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” This isn’t love at all - it is attachment - and attachment is rigid, it is very different from love.
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Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own 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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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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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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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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It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.
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