Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.
JON KABAT-ZINNLiving 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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Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else’s. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else’s journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?
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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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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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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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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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There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
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You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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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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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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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 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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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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