Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.
JON KABAT-ZINNJust stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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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.
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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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Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.
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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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In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
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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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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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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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Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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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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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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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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There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
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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 the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.
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When you’re walking, just walk. When you’re eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that’s huge.
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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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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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No one can listen to your body for you. To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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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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We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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