Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
JON KABAT-ZINNArriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
More Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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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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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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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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All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
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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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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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Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
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But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It’s the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.
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It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
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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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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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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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