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Perhaps the most “spiritual” thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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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Chance Death Live Ourselves Risk Wake Up
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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Body Connection Development Kind Meditation Technology
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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Feeling Force Healing Ourselves Security Struggle Time
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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Choice Inspirational Learning Stop Wave Yourself
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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Attention Mind Pay Purpose Way World Yourself
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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Commitment Eat Ethics Garden Harmony Young Yourself
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
Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.
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Aware Beautiful Live Meaning Missing Ourselves State
Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.
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Arise Hold On Moments Reject Seek Wisdom
You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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Affection Attention Thinking Wisdom Yourself
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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Let Go Meditation Practice Try Way
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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Fear Honesty Live Ocean Ourselves Truth
From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Attention Meditation Point Society Suffering Tradition View
There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
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Aware Different Mindset Talk Way
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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Deep Myself Place See Simplicity Wisdom
Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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Be Yourself Meditation Simplicity

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