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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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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Change Experience Feeling Goal Learning Meditation Moment Myself Walk
In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
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Let Go Magic Moments Special Time
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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Action Compassionate Cultivate Life Love Mindset Yourself
Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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Incredible Practice Writing
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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Community Feeling Hard Job Mindset Potential
All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
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Addiction Preparation Sight Stress Suffering Yourself
Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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Awake Mindset Yourself
The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we’re continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.
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Attention Change Feeling Growth Learning Moments Pay Present Time
Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
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Human Meditation Yourself
In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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Defect Moments Practice
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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Acceptance Blessing Deserve Feeling Gift Practice Purpose Self Love Simplicity Time True Universe
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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Change Feeling Moments Try Yourself
Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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Mindset Travel
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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Fear Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual Thinking Wisdom
Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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Act Love Sanity Stop
We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.
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Avoid Darkness Face Way Willing

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