You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
JON KABAT-ZINNYou could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.
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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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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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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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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
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Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.
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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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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.
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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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