Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
JON KABAT-ZINNJust 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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Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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This is something called “walking meditation.” The goal is to learn to be aware of each and every movement and feeling. I know it seems ridiculous, but it does change the way you experience walking.
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There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
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See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation – to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.
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The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.
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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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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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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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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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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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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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