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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
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the United States of America
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Freedom

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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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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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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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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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Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?
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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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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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We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.
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Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
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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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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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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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Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.
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The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to those aspects and dimensions of the self that the client may be unable to touch on his or her own.
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No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.
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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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We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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