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Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It’s the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.
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Commitment Eat Ethics Garden Harmony Young Yourself
Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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Act Love Sanity Stop
The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.
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Aware Darkness Fundamental Gold Health Hold Pain Strong Yourself
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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Aspect Breathe Calm Concentration Focus Meditation Place Training Wonderful
Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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Mindset Travel
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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Attention Mind Pay Purpose Way World Yourself
See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation – to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.
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Acceptance Blessing Deserve Feeling Gift Practice Purpose Self Love Simplicity Time True Universe
Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else’s. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else’s journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?
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Imitation Journey Path Preparation Respect True Unique Way Yourself
Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
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Important Priority Yourself
This is something called “walking meditation.” The goal is to learn to be aware of each and every movement and feeling. I know it seems ridiculous, but it does change the way you experience walking.
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Change Experience Feeling Goal Learning Meditation Moment Myself Walk
We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.
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Avoid Darkness Face Way Willing
There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
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Aware Different Mindset Talk Way
If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.
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Fear Honesty Live Ocean Ourselves Truth
You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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Affection Attention Thinking Wisdom Yourself
See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn’t bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.
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Happiness Hold On Let Go Satisfaction
Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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Deep Feeling Meditation Way Yourself

Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.

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Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.

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