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If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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Act Love Sanity Stop
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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Capacity Cultivate Education Focus Ourselves Student System
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
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
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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Change Feeling Moments Try Yourself
Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.
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Arise Hold On Moments Reject Seek Wisdom
Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.
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Activity Human Improvement Intention Meditation Simplicity System Yourself
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
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
Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
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Important Priority Yourself
Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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Attention Freedom Intelligence Mom
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
Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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Attention Capacity Human Pay Universe
When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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Aware Embrace Enlightenment Inspirational Live Spiritual
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

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