See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn’t bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.
JON KABAT-ZINNMeditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.
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Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
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Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
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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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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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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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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?
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You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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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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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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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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