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There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops. ~ Jack Kornfield
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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. ~ Jack Kornfield
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We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much. ~ Jack Kornfield
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In this way, our life may appear as a series of mistakes. One could call them "problems" or "challenges," but in some ways "mistakes" is better. One famous Zen master actually described spiritual practice as "one mistake after another," which is to say, one opportunity after another to learn. It is from "difficulties, mistakes, and errors" that we actually learn. To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others - we are at ease with the difficulties of life. But ~ Jack Kornfield
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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Mindfulness and fearless presence bring true protection. When we meet the world with recognition, acceptance, investigation, and non-identification, we discover that wherever we are, freedom is possible, just as the rain falls on and nurtures all things equally. ~ Jack Kornfield
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The society that denies its poverty and injustice has lost a part of its freedom as well. If we deny our dissatisfaction, our anger, our pain, our ambition, we will suffer. If we deny our values, our beliefs, our longings, or our goodness, we will suffer. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears. ~ Jack Kornfield
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We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy - material or spiritual. ~ Jack Kornfield
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A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body. ~ Jack Kornfield
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life ~ Jack Kornfield
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To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes. ~ Jack Kornfield
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George Washington Carver explained, "Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough." Mindfulness is this kind ~ Jack Kornfield
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What brings the karmic result from the patterns of our actions is not our action alone. As we intend and then act, we create [our] karma: so another key to understanding the creation of karma is becoming aware of intention. The heart is our garden, and along with each action there is an intention that is planted like a seed. The result of the patterns of our karma is the fruit of these seeds. ~ Jack Kornfield
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If grief or anger arises, Let there be grief or anger. This is the Buddha in all forms,Sun Buddha, Moon Buddha, Happy Buddha, Sad Buddha. It is the universe offering all things to awaken and open our heart. ~ Jack Kornfield
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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. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Grant that I have enough suffering that my heart really opens to the great compassion of this world, that I be given enough so that I don't wall myself off from the world, that it breaks down the heart and the separation and the ego and the fear, and it lets me touch the nectar, the milk of kindness itself, of something greater. ~ Jack Kornfield
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There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice. ~ Jack Kornfield
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There is no higher happiness than peace. ~ Jack Kornfield
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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget. ~ Jack Kornfield
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And as to me, I know of nothing else but miracles. WALT WHITMAN ~ Jack Kornfield
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What we find as we listen to the songs of our rage or fear, loneliness or longing, is that they do not stay forever. Rage turns into sorrow; sorrow turns into tears; tears may fall for a long time, but then the sun comes out. ~ Jack Kornfield
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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? ~ Jack Kornfield
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Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do. ~ Jack Kornfield
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The Sufis have a saying: "Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post." This brings together both parts of practice: pray, yes, but also make sure that you do what is necessary in the world. ~ Jack Kornfield
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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. ~ Jack Kornfield
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The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to
release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the
clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our
spirit. ~ Jack Kornfield
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One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw a man doing walking meditation whose face was lit up in wonder. The man had just discovered something on the ground in front of him. Mara's attendants asked what that was and Mara replied, "A piece of truth." "Doesn't this bother you when someone finds a piece of the truth, O evil one?" his attendants asked. "No," Mara replied. "Right after this they usually make a belief out of it." ~ Jack Kornfield
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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love." Some ~ Jack Kornfield
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Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you. ~ Jack Kornfield
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As Albert Camus wrote, "We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and others. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement ... ~ Jack Kornfield
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In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself. ~ Jack Kornfield
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If this day in the lifetime of a hundred years is lost, will you ever touch it with your hands again? The ~ Jack Kornfield
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When sleepy, meditate with your eyes open wide. Stand in place for a few minutes or do walking meditation. If it's really bad, walk briskly or walk backward, splash some water on your face. Sleepiness is something we can respond to creatively. When ~ Jack Kornfield
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For instance, the near enemy of love is attachment. It masquerades as love, it feels like love, but it is essentially different. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation. ~ Jack Kornfield
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We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from an honorable and open heart accepting what is true. Do we want to remain stuck? Or to release the fearful sense of self and rest kindly where we are? ~ Jack Kornfield
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Strength of the Heart comes from knowing that the pain that we each must bear is part of the greater pain shared by all that lives. It is not just 'our' pain, but 'the' pain and realizing this awakens our universal compassion ~ Jack Kornfield
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The words of the Buddha offer this truth: ∼ Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation. ~ Jack Kornfield
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To protect the separate self, we push certain things away, while to bolster it we hold on to other things and identify with them. A ~ Jack Kornfield
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In truly listening to our most painful songs, we can learn the divine art of forgiveness. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again. ~ Jack Kornfield
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In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is. We can touch with great compassion the pain from the contracted identities that we and others have created in the world. ~ Jack Kornfield
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Be mindful of intention. Intention is the seed that creates our future. ~ Jack Kornfield
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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. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Every individual in the world has a unique contribution. ~ Jack Kornfield
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The poet Hafiz writes, Don't surrender your loneliness So quickly. Let it cut more deep. Let it ferment and season you As few human Or even divine ingredients can. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Our life is shaped and determined by our thoughts. Usually we are only half conscious of the way thoughts direct our life; we are lost in thoughts as if they are reality. We take our own mental creations quite seriously, endorsing them without reservation. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With the eloquence of a poet, he holds up a sheet of paper and teaches us that the rain cloud and the tree and the logger who cut the tree down are all there in the paper. He's been one of the most significant carriers of the lamp of the dharma to the West that we have had. ~ Jack Kornfield
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Almost always the roots of anger are in one of two difficult states, which arise just before the anger appears. We become angry either when we are hurt and in pain or when we are afraid. Pay attention to your own life and see if this is true. The next time anger and irritation spring up, see if just before they arose you felt fear or hurt. If you pay attention to the fear or pain first, does the anger even appear? Anger ~ Jack Kornfield
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A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance ... ~ Jack Kornfield
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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Samadhi doesn't just come of itself; it takes practice. ~ Jack Kornfield
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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. ~ Jack Kornfield
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war. ~ Jack Kornfield
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We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing. ~ Jack Kornfield
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The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are. To follow a path with heart, we must understand the whole process of making war within ourselves and without, how it begins and how it ends. War's roots are in ignorance. Without understanding we can easily become frightened by life's fleeting changes, the inevitable losses, disappointments, the insecurity of our aging and death. Misunderstanding leads us to fight against life, running from pain or grasping at security and pleasures that by their nature can never be satisfying. ~ Jack Kornfield
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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open. ~ Jack Kornfield
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The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,' they are almost certainly deluded. If our actions do not come from a kind heart, from loving courage and compassion, they are deluded. If they are based on a distinction between 'us' and 'them,' they stem from delusion. Only to the extent that we act from the wisdom of no separation, understanding how we are woven together, will our intention bring benefit. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Whatever we cultivate in times of ease, we gather as strength for times of change. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Because love, compassion, and joy can lead to excessive attachment, their warmth needs to be balanced with equanimity. Because equanimity can lead to excessive detachment, its coolness needs to be balanced with love, compassion, and joy. Established together, these radiant qualities express mental harmony. ~ Jack Kornfield
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I used to think that to become free you had to practice like a samurai warrior, but now I understand that you have to practice like a devoted mother of a newborn child. It takes the same energy but has a completely different quality. It's compassion and presence rather than having to defeat the enemy in battle. ~ Jack Kornfield
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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. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity. ~ Jack Kornfield
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No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism and environmental destruction. What's called for on the Earth at this time is really a change of heart ... the question is really not the future of humanity, but the presence of eternity. ~ Jack Kornfield
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well? ~ Jack Kornfield
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Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a new way by developing a stillness of mind and a strength of heart. ~ Jack Kornfield
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The suffering and happiness in our world, both individual and collective, depend on our consciousness. ~ Jack Kornfield
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O Nobly Born, now there is born in you exceeding compassion for all those living creatures who have forgotten their true nature. - Mahamudra text of Tibetan yogi Longchenpa ~ Jack Kornfield
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The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to work directly with the most primary elements of our body and our mind, to see the ways we get trapped by our fears, desires, and anger, to learn directly our capacity for freedom. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Equanimity embraces the loved and the unloved, the agreeable and the disagreeable, the pleasure and pain. It eliminates clinging and aversion. ~ Jack Kornfield
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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. ~ Jack Kornfield
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True love and prayer are learned in the hour when love becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it. ~ Jack Kornfield
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The truth is that things change whether we want them to or not. Becoming attached to things as they are or pushing things away that we do not like does not stop them from changing. It only leads to further suffering. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn't watering down nirvana. This is the reality of liberation that we can experience, sometimes in a moment and sometimes in transformative ways that change our entire life ~ Jack Kornfield
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Within the mystery of life there is the infinite darkness of the night sky lit by distant orbs of fire, the cobbled skin of an orange that releases its fragrance to our touch, the unfathomable depths of the eyes of our lover. No creation story, no religious system can fully describe or explain this richness and depth. Mystery is so every-present that no one can know for certain what will happen one hour from now.
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. ~ Jack Kornfield
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This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test. ~ Jack Kornfield
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The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Picture or imagine that this earth is filled with Buddhas, that every single being you encounter is enlightened, except one - yourself! Imagine that they are all here to teach you. Whoever you encounter is acting as they do solely for your benefit, to provide just the teachings and difficulties you need in order to awaken. Sense what lessons they offer to you. Inwardly thank them for this. Throughout a day or a week continue to develop the image of enlightened teachers all around you. Notice how it changes your whole perspective on life. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care. ~ Jack Kornfield
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There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth's seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life. ~ Jack Kornfield
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When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all. ~ Jack Kornfield
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It is our commitment to wholeness that matters, the willingness to unfold in every deep aspect of our being. ~ Jack Kornfield
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In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion. ~ Jack Kornfield
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You will begin to see desire's impermanent nature, and you will also realize that you do not have to act on every thought or desire. You will learn that you can choose from the many possibilities of how to respond to desire when it arises, and you can discover a new kind of freedom, where you do not have to follow your desires, but can choose to behave in new ways in response to your desires. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Sophisticated meditative disciplines, healing practices, cognitive and emotional trainings, conflict resolution techniques - he used them all to awaken his visitors to their own qualities of integrity, equanimity, gratitude, and forgiveness. ~ Jack Kornfield
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Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are. ~ Jack Kornfield
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What we seek is what we are. ~ Jack Kornfield
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