We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
JON KABAT-ZINNIf we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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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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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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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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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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All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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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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No one can listen to your body for you. To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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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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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
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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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