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Quote by Jack Kornfield

“The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.”

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Jack Kornfield is an American author and meditation teacher, born in 1945. His works mainly focus on Buddhist meditation and spiritual growth, which have won him a wide audience. more

“Some other people think that awakened consciousness is really about fullness or presence, being completely present for every moment, but these experiences are only one of the dimensions of awakened consciousness. Understanding these different dimensions as facets of awakening can help with the confusion surrounding the different spiritual paths. They're not leading to different places, but rather reflect the luminous and liberated aspects of consciousness itself. These qualities are not far away; in fact, they are right here.”

“Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.”

Knows Born Nobody Knows

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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.”

World Ends Body Stuff Animal This World Plant Holes Bizarre Plants And Animals

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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.”

Knows World Consciousness Know How Mystery Creation This World Extraordinary

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“Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.”

Play Courses Games

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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.”

Pain Beautiful Remember Mystery Tears Ocean Painful Bliss Galaxy Unbearable Unfathomable

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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.”

Knows World Believe Heart Certain Tears

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

World Remember Joy Trouble Who You Are Remember Who You Are

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“With growing awareness, you can see where you're caught or where you suffer or where you create suffering. You can then turn toward the difficulties that arise in your life with compassion, bow, and say, these too are part of human incarnation.”

Humans Suffering Turns Compassion Growing Awareness Difficulty Caught Arise Bows Incarnation

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

Use Understanding And Love Understanding And Love

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