black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Activity Human Improvement Intention Meditation Simplicity System Yourself
No one can listen to your body for you. To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Body Growth Healing Listening Responsibility Yourself
Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Important Priority Yourself
From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Attention Meditation Point Society Suffering Tradition View
The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Moments Wisdom Worth
When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Certain Experience Present Soul View
Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Awake Mindset Yourself
Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Attention Freedom Intelligence Mom
Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Deep Myself Place See Simplicity Wisdom
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.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Addiction Brain Conversation People Yourself
Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Feeling Force Healing Ourselves Security Struggle Time
Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Be Yourself Meditation Simplicity
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.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Fear Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual Thinking Wisdom
Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
JON KABAT-ZINN

Deserve Dignity Reminder Time Worth
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-ZINN

Avoid Darkness Face Way Willing
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

Fear Honesty Live Ocean Ourselves Truth

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes