Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?
JON KABAT-ZINNIt is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.
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Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.
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Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It’s a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.
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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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When you’re walking, just walk. When you’re eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that’s huge.
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Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
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Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
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No one can listen to your body for you. To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
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Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.
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You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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