In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
JON KABAT-ZINNNo one can listen to your body for you. To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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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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One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that’s been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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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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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It’s a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.
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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.
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When you’re walking, just walk. When you’re eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that’s huge.
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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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