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There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
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Addiction Preparation Sight Stress Suffering Yourself
Perhaps the most “spiritual” thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
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Act Compassionate Integrity Kindness Spiritual
When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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Certain Experience Present Soul View
You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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Affection Attention Thinking Wisdom Yourself
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
Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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Attention Freedom Intelligence Mom
If you look at people out on the street, if you look at people at restaurants, nobody’s having conversations anymore. They’re sitting at dinner looking at their phone, because their brain is so addicted to it.
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Addiction Brain Conversation People Yourself
Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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Mindset Travel
Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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Awake Mindset Yourself
Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.
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Best Enthusiasm Family Practice Presence Spirit World Yourself
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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Fear Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual Thinking Wisdom
He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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Death Deep Himself Philosophy
Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
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Acceptance Demonstration Fact Patience Time Understand Wisdom
Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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Incredible Practice Writing
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 take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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Best Care Future Present Time

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