Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
JON KABAT-ZINNVoluntary 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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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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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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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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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn’t bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.
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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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Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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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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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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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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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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