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.
JON KABAT-ZINNMeditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.
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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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All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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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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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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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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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 can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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Mindful parenting is the hardest job on the planet, but it’s also one that has the potential for the deepest kinds of satisfactions over the life span, and the greatest feelings of interconnectedness and community and belonging.
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From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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