Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.
JON KABAT-ZINNThe real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
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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 experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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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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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.
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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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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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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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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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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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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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So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
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