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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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  Betrayal, Heart, Compassion

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “After The Ecstasy, The Laundry”, p.11, Random House

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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.

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  Wall, Kindness, Heart

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

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  Understanding, And Love, Use

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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.

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  Grief, Heart, Moon

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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.

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  Spiritual, Maturity, Emotional

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• Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?

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  Why Not, Way, Dies

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “After The Ecstasy, The Laundry”, p.41, Random House

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• Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.

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  Love, Heart, Achievement

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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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  Wisdom, Reality, Loving Yourself

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• Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.

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  Philosophy, Healing, Medicine

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• When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very limitations of form, of our maleness and femaleness, of our parenthood and our childhood, of gravity on the earth and the changing of the seasons, is the freedom and harmony we have sought for so long. Our individual life is an expression of the whole mystery, and in it we can rest in the center of the movement, the center of all worlds.

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  Expression, Long, Childhood

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• Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

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  Unbearable

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• The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.

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  Practice, Goal, Mind

  Jack Kornfield (2011). “The Buddha Is Still Teaching: Contemporary Buddhist Wisdom”, p.5, Shambhala Publications

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• Forgiveness does not mean that we have to continue to relate to those who have done us harm. In some cases the best practice may be to end our connection, to never speak to or be with a harmful person again. Sometimes in the process of forgiveness a person who hurts or betrayed us may wish to make amends, but even this does not require us to put ourselves in the way of further harm.

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  Hurt, Mean, Best Practices

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• The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

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  Expression, Courageous, Empty

  Twitter post from Feb 02, 2015

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• Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.

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  Born, Nobody Knows, Knows

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• Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

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  Way, Indifference, Misguided

  Twitter post from Oct 17, 2015

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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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  Spiritual, Practice, Matter

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.287, Random House

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• We can always begin again.

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  Buddhism, Suffering, Begin Again

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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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.

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  Heart, Mean, Order

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• When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness.

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  Regret, Loneliness, Frustration

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• Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.

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  Joy, Remember Who You Are, World

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• May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.

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  Heart, Compassion, Asking

  "Jack Kornfield on Gratitude and Mindfulness". greatergood.berkeley.edu. May 19, 2014.

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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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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Gardening

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.203, Random House

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• Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.

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  Buddhism, Race, Suffering

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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.

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  Rain, Teaching, Cutting

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