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Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.

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
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Freedom
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
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Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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There is no higher happiness than peace.
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What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?
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Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.
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Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions create problems. Considered responses bring peace. With a peaceful heart whatever happens can be met with wisdom...Peace is not weak it is unshakable.
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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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Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
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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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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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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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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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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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For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.
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Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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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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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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Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.
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